Hello, I saw the front page item on Hacker News yesterday and was immediately intrigued by this project, and as I investigated a little, the community around it (which I had no idea existed). Having sent yesterday evening and this morning reading and exploring, I'm finding myself really excited to get involved and learn more. To facilitate the learning side of things, I put together a Molly Brown container this afternoon, and thought that other folks might find it useful for learning and experimentation: https://sr.ht/~cthorley/molly-docker/ In its current form, this container is pretty narrowly targeted at local deployment. However, I'm planning on expanding its scope to support non-local deployment targets, and will prioritize this work if there appears to be interest from the community. Thanks to everyone who has invested time in this ecosystem so far. Best regards, Charles
Hi Charles, Welcome to the community! I am glad that reading about Gemini sparked your interest. I have to admit, I was very apprehensive about learning that Gemini had featured at HN. In part simply because I feared too many people turning up at once and this small, slow, "human scale" project being overwhelmed. Also, in part, because of a perceived cultural mismatch. But so far actually I am very happy to see that the majority of the response has been positive or at least constructive. It's good to have more people around! Please don't take this the wrong way, but my hope is that once I've had the time to put a bit more work into Molly-Brown, building a container for it will be something very obviously not worth the time and trouble required! Containers make sense for complicated software with large and fragile dependency networks, which is exactly the kind of thing Gemini software should *not* be! But I absolutely grant that in its current just-barely-running state, where it doesn't daemonise itself and isn't integrated with any init systems, and you have to manually create the key/cert pair, there's enough of a barrier to entry that casually interested people might be turned away. If a container gets more people setting up Gemini servers, that's only a good thing. Cheers, Solderpunk On Sat, May 02, 2020 at 03:50:32PM -0700, Charles Thorley wrote: > Hello, > > I saw the front page item on Hacker News yesterday and was immediately intrigued by this project, and as I investigated a little, the community around it (which I had no idea existed). Having sent yesterday evening and this morning reading and exploring, I'm finding myself really excited to get involved and learn more. > > To facilitate the learning side of things, I put together a Molly Brown container this afternoon, and thought that other folks might find it useful for learning and experimentation: > > https://sr.ht/~cthorley/molly-docker/ > > In its current form, this container is pretty narrowly targeted at local deployment. However, I'm planning on expanding its scope to support non-local deployment targets, and will prioritize this work if there appears to be interest from the community. > > Thanks to everyone who has invested time in this ecosystem so far. > > Best regards, > > Charles
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