Greetings Gemininauts! I just wanted to wish a warm welcome to all the new subscribers to this list who have discovered Gemini in the wake of our recent exposure on Hacker News and Lobste.rs. I realise this is slightly overdue, but perhaps this is a nice introduction to the relatively relaxed pace of development here in Geminiland! Not that we are opposed to getting stuff done, but we are still a small community of volunteers and the typical pace matches that reality. New energy and new ideas are very welcome, so please feel free to jump in to the mailing list and the community more broadly. Unsurprisingly, given that you are the kind of people who read Hacker News, many of you have already started on Gemini-related software projects. This is welcome, please keep us informed about them. However, Gemini is probably already setting new world records for the ratio of software implementations to available content for an internet protocol! More important than anything else for the growth of the community and the refinement of the protocol is *content*. Good content will encourage people to install clients, check the place out, and spread the word. Ambitious content creation projects help us figure out what the protocol's strong and weak points are and can help make sure any future changes are based on real world experience and not trying to anticipate the future. Any and all content is good, but Gemini-exclusive content is better, and content that isn't *about* Gemini is best of all. There's nothing wrong with writing about the protocol - I do it myself, in a gemlog dedicated to the subject - but we don't want to become an insular community which only talks about itself. Adoption of the protocol by newcomers will be much more likely if there's stuff in Geminispace which is of value or interest for people who don't already know much about it. If you want to get started publishing content in Geminispace, anybody on this mailing list can email me an ssh public key in order to get sftp access to a user directory at gemini.circumlunar.space, where you can host anything which doesn't get me into legal hot water or bring the project as a whole into ill repute. There are other places out there offering user accounts, too - explore the list of known hosts at gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/servers/. However, be aware that many of these places are pre-existing communities who have started offering Gemini hosting alongside other servicces (like gopher or web hosting, email, shell-based BBSes, etc). Don't be rude and join one of these places just for the free Geminispace if you have no intention in genuinely participating in their broader community! If the idea of a "pubnix" or "tilde" community is wholy new to you, I strongly encourage you to check it out! Many of the earliest and most active participants in Geminispace "come from" one of these communities, and they might offer some insight into the perspectives, attitudes and ideals which are prominent in Geminispace. That's all from me for now. Welcome once again, thanks for your time and interest and thus far wholly positive comments and contributions to this fledgling slice of the internet. I hope you stick around! Cheers, Solderpunk
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