It's all in a name

Chris McGee <newton688 (a) gmail.com>

Hi All,

I'm rather new to this project and I'd like to spread the word, but I feel
that there's a bit of a naming collision when trying to discuss it with the
outside world. Go had a similar issue, but then a convention developed with
the term golang so that people could find things about it instead of the
ancient board game.

What's the term that you use to describe this project and community with
the outside world? I'd like to try to be consistent with whatever you've
come up with already.

Thanks,
Chris

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lel <lel (a) envs.net>

On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 02:50:03PM -0500, Chris McGee wrote:
> there's a bit of a naming collision when trying to discuss it with the
> outside world. Go had a similar issue, but then a convention developed with
> the term golang so that people could find things about it instead of the
> ancient board game.

I think for the most part people say Gemini protocol if they need to
disambiguate the protocol from the rocket from the Zodiac sign.

I don't think there's a name collision there unless there's another Gemini
protocol out there somewhere, but if there is we appear to have kicked its ass
because a Google search for Gemini protocol brings me to all the right stuff
(which feels like a miracle -- this project has come so far in these two short
years) which still isn't the case when you're looking for Go documentation, so
I think we're probably fine.

best,
~lel

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Oliver Simmons <oliversimmo (a) gmail.com>

On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 at 19:50, Chris McGee <newton688 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm rather new to this project and I'd like to spread the word, but I 
feel that there's a bit of a naming collision when trying to discuss it 
with the outside world. Go had a similar issue, but then a convention 
developed with the term golang so that people could find things about it 
instead of the ancient board game.
>
> What's the term that you use to describe this project and community with 
the outside world? I'd like to try to be consistent with whatever you've 
come up with already.
>

? "Gemini protocol" for the protocol.
? "Gemtext" for the text format (text/gemini).
? "Gemini space" for talking about our version of the "web", that is
all the sites and stuff hosted with Gemini.

-Oliver Simmons

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