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From: D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com>

Subject: Re: News

Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2022 20:51:32 -0000 (UTC)

Message-ID: <dog_cow-1660078291@macgui.com>

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Ben wrote:

Any news on the Gemini front?

Last news item posted was in June:

2022-06-20 - Three years of Gemini!

Today, the 20th of June 2022, is the third anniversary of the Gemini

project! Or at least, the third anniversary of the public announcing of the

project under that name - arguably the very first seeds were planted just a

little earlier, but it's hard to put a concrete date on anything earlier

than this, so for official celebration purposes, today is the day. Somewhat

astonishingly, we have now outlived our namesake! Gemini 1 was launched as

an uncrewed test in April 1964, and the final flight, Gemini 12, splashed

down in November 1966, less than three years later.

It would be difficult to deny that the third year of the project's life has

been the least eventful by a large margin, if we restrict our attention to

the official and the visible. I kind of wonder if anybody will believe me

anymore when I say things like this, but I really do still care, and want

things to get better, and feel bad about how poorly I was able to handle the

explosive surge of attention which marked Gemini's second year. It's true.

But I also think it's easy to overstate just how bad things are. Despite the

loss of the mailing list, despite the glacial pace of refinements to the

protocol specification, statistics provided by the Lupa crawler suggest that

since the FAQ was last updated a little over a year ago, the number of

Gemini capsules has more than doubled, so too has the number of unique

domains hosting Gemini content, and the number of unique IP addresses didn't

quite double but got close. Despite the shortcomings of communication and

leadership, people are still finding out about Gemini, they are still

finding it compelling enough in its current state to want to try it out, and

they are finding enough software and documentation and community assistance

out there to set up capsules.

I'm not clutching at straws here. Slow, organic, grass-roots growth of

Geminispace is absolutely the most important thing for the project, and I

consider the fact that it is happening without strong official outreach or

coordination to be a genuine sign of health. Thank you to everybody who has

done things, small or large, to help keep Gemini healthy.

Let's keep those capsules flying!

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