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Promoting Gemini, is anyone working on outreach?

karmstrong at artorinix.com karmstrong at artorinix.com

Mon Feb 8 16:58:47 GMT 2021

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Full disclosure: I work for the Linux Professional Institute(https://www.lpi.org). We have a sister site, FOSSLife(https://www.fosslife.org) that promotes anything FOSS-related. Weregularly hold meetings where we discuss ideas for subjects topromote/raise awareness for, and publish an article about them. Myresponsibility is in the technology arena, and I have been toying withthe idea of bringing up a 'gentle introduction to gemini'. If anyonehas ideas as to what would be a good approach to bring new people intothe sphere, I would welcome them. Just like the very early web, therewas a higher-barrier to entry. Gemini has that now, but I was thinkingof a good step-by-step starter tutorial with some explanations on howto get a person set up 1. on an existing gemini hosting service 2. ontheir own server. What do you all think?

Thanks!

- Kenny

On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 17:41 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

[Not tagged since there is no obvious tag for this subject.]

Gemini seems to have some success

<gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi> but one day

or the other, we'll have to move further and tries to promote it to

normal people. This is what is done for systems like PeerTube

<https://joinpeertube.org/> (or <https://joinfediverse.org/>, which

seems to be in french only) with a Web site explaining what it is,

how

to join, etc, targeted to real people.

Now, don't get me wrong, I do not suggest to launch such a Web site

tomorrow. Gemini is not stable enough, the specification is not

final,

and most Gemini programs are not yet packaged for typical operating

systems.

But creating such an "outreach" Web site takes time so may be it

could

be a good idea to start working on it? (I have no special competences

on that field, I just suggest a joingemini.org could be cool.)

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