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!
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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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