Introduction and an offering

Hello,

I saw the front page item on Hacker News yesterday and was immediately 
intrigued by this project, and as I investigated a little, the community 
around it (which I had no idea existed).  Having sent yesterday evening 
and this morning reading and exploring, I'm finding myself really excited 
to get involved and learn more.

To facilitate the learning side of things, I put together a Molly Brown 
container this afternoon, and thought that other folks might find it 
useful for learning and experimentation:

https://sr.ht/~cthorley/molly-docker/

In its current form, this container is pretty narrowly targeted at local 
deployment.  However, I'm planning on expanding its scope to support 
non-local deployment targets, and will prioritize this work if there 
appears to be interest from the community.

Thanks to everyone who has invested time in this ecosystem so far.

Best regards,

Charles

Hi Charles,

Welcome to the community!  I am glad that reading about Gemini sparked
your interest.

I have to admit, I was very apprehensive about learning that Gemini had
featured at HN.  In part simply because I feared too many people turning
up at once and this small, slow, "human scale" project being
overwhelmed.  Also, in part, because of a perceived cultural mismatch.
But so far actually I am very happy to see that the majority of the
response has been positive or at least constructive.  It's good to have
more people around!

Please don't take this the wrong way, but my hope is that once I've had
the time to put a bit more work into Molly-Brown, building a container
for it will be something very obviously not worth the time and trouble
required!  Containers make sense for complicated software with large and
fragile dependency networks, which is exactly the kind of thing Gemini
software should *not* be!  But I absolutely grant that in its current
just-barely-running state, where it doesn't daemonise itself and isn't
integrated with any init systems, and you have to manually create the
key/cert pair, there's enough of a barrier to entry that casually
interested people might be turned away.  If a container gets more people
setting up Gemini servers, that's only a good thing.

Cheers,
Solderpunk

On Sat, May 02, 2020 at 03:50:32PM -0700, Charles Thorley wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I saw the front page item on Hacker News yesterday and was immediately 
intrigued by this project, and as I investigated a little, the community 
around it (which I had no idea existed).  Having sent yesterday evening 
and this morning reading and exploring, I'm finding myself really excited 
to get involved and learn more.
> 
> To facilitate the learning side of things, I put together a Molly Brown 
container this afternoon, and thought that other folks might find it 
useful for learning and experimentation:
> 
> https://sr.ht/~cthorley/molly-docker/
> 
> In its current form, this container is pretty narrowly targeted at local 
deployment.  However, I'm planning on expanding its scope to support 
non-local deployment targets, and will prioritize this work if there 
appears to be interest from the community.
> 
> Thanks to everyone who has invested time in this ecosystem so far.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Charles