text/gemini to RSS

[solderpunk]

While I haven't forgotten about the still unresolved issue of text
wrapping, I have to see that *aside* from this, Gemini is starting to
seem pretty stable.  Most parts of the spec are well-established now and
we have multiple server and client iplementations.

For the project to really move forward from here I feel that what's
needed is more content on Gemini, especially content which is *only* on
Gemini.  I am planning to launch an sftp-managed free Gemini host in the
near future, basically a Gemini companion to the Ziabatsu, wich I hope
will provide an easy means for this, for folk who are interested but not
able or willing to commit to running their own server.  Stay tuned on
that front!

But content alone is not enough, what's needed is an easy way for people
to find and monitor this content, in a more convenient way than manually
checking each page every day.  IMHO the Bongusta phlog aggregator had a
*tremendous* positive effect on the phlogosphere.  An equivalent of
Bongusta for Geminispace would be grand.

Of course, there's no moku-pona equivalent for Gemini yet.  And while
somebody could write one, a much more robust possibility would be for
Gemini - in the spirit of pulling the very best ideas from the web into
something more closely resembling Gopherspace - to adopt a culture of
using RSS.

If somebody is looking for a relatively simple software project related
to Gemini, it could be very handy to have a script which reads a Gemini
map from a local file, and writes out an RSS document where each link in
the Gemini map becomes an RSS entry.  Then people writing "Gemini logs"
could run this as a cron job, pointing it at the main menu of their log.

If such a thing were to materialise, I'd be very happy for my upcoming
Gemini hosting provider to also host a Geminispace aggregator.

-Solderpunk