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solderpunk solderpunk at SDF.ORG
Sat May 9 15:34:01 BST 2020
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ``` Hi Dave, This is a good point to raise. I guess prior to the recent influx ofinterest from Hacker News and other places, we've been able to somewhatignore this, because most of the consumers of Gemini content have alsobeen active community members who have the skills, interest and time toget their client(s) of choice up and running. But lowering the barrierto entry will be important for wider adoption. I can't promise anything, but I'll make an effort to push out a 1.0.0release of AV-98 tomorrow (cue anguished cries from people inGopherspace who have been waiting years for a 1.0.0 release of VF-1!),and as part of that I'll upload it to PyPI - that means a simple `pipinstall` will be able to get people started. Admittedly a command-lineclient isn't going to be an easy intro for a lot of people, but it willwork for many, and to be honest I'm not sure the project is necessarilyready for thousands of new users in a short time span yet. But someextra energy - and especially content! - would definitely be verywelcome. Cheers,Solderpunk On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 03:24:32PM -0700, Dave Huseby wrote: > Long time listener, first time caller... > > I just stood up my own Gemini space to publish my writing on user sovereignty, decentralization and privacy. You can find it here: gemini://vi.rs I'm using Let's Encrypt TLS certs with a modified Pollux. I've been watching the Gemini project for months now and I like where it is headed. I chose to publish using only Gemini because it is the closest user-sovereign publishing system we have ATM. > > The only problem now is that lots of people have asked me what they can download and run to read my Gemini "mission log". There aren't any precompiled packages or installers so I've been having them ssh to kiosk to run the VP client. Is anybody planning to publish packages/installers anytime soon? I've had several thousand hits on my Gemini space in the last couple of days despite the hurdles for getting onto Gemini. Castor is hosted on sr.ht that has CI capabilities. I'm familiar with setting up CI builds on Github but not on sr.ht. Does anybody know how to set that up and is willing to send a patch to the maintainer of Castor? > > Cheers! > Dave