Re: [gopher] History and future of "the gopher project"
Hi,
maybe this document might be handy for you ...
Regards,
kaltheat
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DEVELOPEMENT OF
THE GOPHER PROJECT
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version: 0.0
edited: Jan 23 2015
This document should be a fact sheet, a collection of facts that tries to trace
the path the gopher project walked from the past to the present. The last
section should be a collection of wishes for a gopher project in the future.
Feel free to edit an republish this sheet (remember to increase date and
version).
TODO
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- some sources for the claims
- collect some more facts for history and present
- beautify the future
history
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- project initially created by the creators of gopher protocol in 1991 at the
University of Minnesota (USA), coordination of gopher protocol development,
gopher conferences, gopher applications, ...
- John Goerzen made some efforts to archive content of old gopher servers and
old gopher server/client software from YYYY to YYYY
- John Goerzen created gopher-project mailinglist and registered
gopherproject.org
present
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- John Goerzen stopped activities on gopherspace, moved mailing list on debian
server
- John Goerzen handed gopherproject.org to Cameron Kaiser, domain redirects to
gopher.floodgap.com
- gopherproject is a name for the mailing list and for a freenode IRC channel
future
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- gopherproject could be a community driven project that unites efforts in
gopherspace
- gopherproject could provide a gopherhole with valueable/up-to-date content
for gopher newbies, gopher historians, gopher developers, ...
- gopherproject could organize gopher conferences
- gopherproject could help with standardization efforts
- gopherproject could develope and maintain an up-to-date gopher server
(software) and gopher client (software) as reference implementations of RFCs
- gopherproject could continously review documents (also in web, like
wikipedia article)
- gopherproject could continously make archive of some gopher servers (like
archive.org for web)
- gopherproject could maintain "official" communication channels like mailing
list, usenet newsgroup, irc channel, ...
- <YOUR WISH HERE>
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