Promoting Gemini, is anyone working on outreach?

[karmstrong at artorinix.com]

Full disclosure: ?I work for the Linux Professional Institute
(https://www.lpi.org). ?We have a sister site, FOSSLife
(https://www.fosslife.org) that promotes anything FOSS-related. ?We
regularly hold meetings where we discuss ideas for subjects to
promote/raise awareness for, and publish an article about them. ?My
responsibility is in the technology arena, and I have been toying with
the idea of bringing up a 'gentle introduction to gemini'. ?If anyone
has ideas as to what would be a good approach to bring new people into
the sphere, I would welcome them. ?Just like the very early web, there
was a higher-barrier to entry. ?Gemini has that now, but I was thinking
of a good step-by-step starter tutorial with some explanations on how
to get a person set up 1. on an existing gemini hosting service 2. on
their own server. ?What do you all think?

Thanks!

- Kenny

On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 17:41 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> [Not tagged since there is no obvious tag for this subject.]
> 
> 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) with a Web site explaining what it is,
> how
> to join, etc, targeted to real people.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.)

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