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Re: [gopher] History and future of "the gopher project"



On 2015-01-10 09:56, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> 
> On 01/08/2015 12:45 AM, kaltheat@googlemail.com wrote:
> >
> > I recently asked similiar questions in IRC (#gopherproject on freenode), but
> > without sufficient responds. So here again (with wider audience?):
> >
> > What was "the gopher project"?
> > What is "the gopher project"?
> > How is "the gopher project" related to Debian (the mailing list runs on a
> > debian domain)?
> > What should "the gopher project" be?
> >
> > I can't find informations on the purpose of "the gopher project". If it really
> > is a project it should have its own gopherhole.
> 
> In fact, I think you understood the gopher "project" as something more 
> than it actually is.
> 
> "gopher-project" is the name of this mailing list, but it might just as 
> well be named "gopher-community". There is no project per se, other than 
> gathering a community together which shares a passion for Gopher.

Yes, there is no actual project, we aren't a W3C for gopher, we're just
people interested in gopher, I'd say.

-- 
Nuno Silva
Helsinki, Finland

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