Gemini Newsgroup RFD

[Alice]

Hello,

Are you suggesting a "small net" group as well as a Gemini group, or instead of a Gemini group ?


:-)
A.

On 4 October 2021 06:09:31 BST, Plain Text <text at sdfeu.org> wrote:
>On Sun, 03 Oct 2021 11:54:39 +0100, Oliver Simmons wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 at 00:16, Plain Text <text at sdfeu.org> wrote:
>>> merged group for c.i.gopher and c.i.gemini – but lacking a … name
>> 
>> "Small-web" or "small-net" are sometimes used, most often to describe a
>> combination browser for these protocols.
>> There's quite a bit of overlap between the communities.
>
>Thanks, so true! And so I began to write an RFD document for "Small Scale 
>Hypertext Information Systems" in the same pad (carbon copy below):
>https://pads.ccc.de/comp-infosystems-gemini-rfd
>
>Please, anybody feel free to edit along and/or give other input, also on 
>the name and the byline, and the whole endeavour, of course, as I do not 
>want to diminish the efforts already put into the first RFD process. 
>
>Shall we post to news.groups to discuss this RFD along the other? Cheers
>
>
>--- alternative/additional rfd for comp.infosystems.small ---
>
>REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD) This is a formal Request for Discussion 
>(RFD) for the creation of the unmoderated newsgroup: 
>comp.infosystems.small
>
>NEWSGROUPS LINE:
>
>comp.infosystems.small    Small Scale Hypertext Information Spaces
>
>RATIONALE: comp.infosystems.small
>
>The idea for creating the newsgroup comp.infosystems.small originated 
>while drafting an RFD for comp.infosystems.gemini as Gemini has some 
>overlap with Gopher. Both are hypertext systems much more focussed on 
>textual content than the World Wide Web (with its portrayed surveillance 
>capitalism in places) and thus address similar concerns. Here a joint 
>newsgroup for Gopher, Gemini, and similar small infosystems is proposed 
>for the following reasons.
>* The existing Gopher and a future Gemini newsgroup do not seem to be or 
>get too crowded each. A joint newsgroup would probably not drown in 
>traffic, either.
>* The joint newsgroup would also invite discussions of related systems or 
>communities, e.g. individual or decentralized "small web"/"small net" 
>instances such as personal diaries served via http(s) or any other 
>protocol.
>* A newsgroup not being restricted to a named protocol is thus also open 
>for future discussions of yet unknown technological undertakings in 
>establishing small or niche communities in information space.
>
>Currently discussions about small web/net take place in weblogs, gemini 
>logs, gopher holes, twtxt, mastodon, IRC, tilde spaces, and elsewhere. 
>The newsgroup comp.infosystems.small could be a new common place. 
>Oftentimes, the concept also is referred to using the mistyping term 
>"smol" instead of "small" like in "smol net", cf. e.g. https://
>communitywiki.org/wiki/SmolNet
>
>
>Upon creating the group comp.infosystems.small, the existing  
>comp.infosystems.gopher shall be deleted or merged into  
>comp.infosystems.small.
>
>
>CHARTER: comp.infosystems.small
>
>comp.infosystems.small  covers information spaces such as hypertext 
>systems using internet protocols such as gopher, https, gemini as well as 
>the technology and tools created by its various communities' members. 
>
>Binaries should not be posted to the group.
>
>MODERATION POLICY: unmoderated
>
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