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Promoting Gemini, is anyone working on outreach?

Johann Galle johann at qwertqwefsday.eu

Mon Feb 8 17:03:45 GMT 2021

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On 08.02.2021 17:41, Stéphane Bortzmeyer wrote:

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)

There's also <https://joinmastodon.org> and <https://pleroma.social>.

with a Web site explaining what it is, how
to join, etc, targeted to real people.

By turing test I am convinced that more than 0 people on this mailinglist are also "real", but I get your point.

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.

The only email from solderpunk this year so far mentioned moving stuffto another domain [1], which would be the right place for such a page.

On 2021-01-01T18:07Z, Solderpunk wrote:

On a more community-oriented note, I would also like to overhaul the
project's public face and delegate some of the responsibility of
managing it.  I plan to transition the project to a new domain this
year, rather than stick with gemini.circumlunar.space.

back to what Stéphane Bortzmeyer wrote:

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.)

This is probably the more interesting problem, a version of the classicallack of content. But if there is a specific point to contribute, thatwould probably be helpful.

[1] <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2021/004642.html>

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