## State Of Gopher

State Of Gopher

by

Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>

## Gopher Stats

* Sadly, the number of servers is nearly the same.

* Maybe peak gopher is reached for our influence.

* Gopher lawn entries are nearly the same too.
	* See the state of bitreich how this could be improved.

* Do we need another measurement?

## Gopher Usage

* ffmpeg(1) now knows gopher support!
	* mpv(1) now knows gopher support!
	* and many more players using ffmpeg.

* vlc(1) now knows gopher support!

Please thank the people in #bitreich-en for the hard work on this.


## Gopher Activity

* At least three active IRC channels with various types of community.
	* #gopherproject on Freenode
	* #gopher on SDF
	* #gopher on Tilde

* The Tildeverses are growing steadily.
	* Retro communities of various topics.

* The Phlogosphere is growing even more.
	* See Moku-Pona for an aggregator.

	gopher://gopher.black/1/moku-pona

## Tildeverse

* tildeverse.org

    | we're a loose association of like-minded tilde communities. if you're
    | interested in learning about *nix (linux, unix, bsd, etc) come check out our
    | member tildes and sign up!

	% printf "/\r\n" | nc tildeverse.org 70 | grep "^h" \
		| grep website | sort | uniq | wc -l
	30

* This increased from 12 last year!

## Other Services (0/2)

From the Gopher Lawn Index:

* Archives
* ASCII Art
* BBS
* Documentation
* Fun
* Games
* Gopher
* Hackerspaces

## Other Services (1/2)

* History
* Homepages
* Hosting / Shells
* Onion Project
* News
* Paste Services
* Phlogosphere
* RSS Feed Interfaces
* Shortner Services
* Software

## Other Services (2/2)

* Twitter / Microblogging
* Web Interfaces
* Wiki

## Gopher Future (0/1)

* Keep what we have created.

* Defend against people trying to change gopher to a new web.

* Do not forget the history of gopher.

* Get gopher support everywhere.
	* Find some new access from gopher and tools which require it.
		* Send the patches, done.

* Write more gopher frontends for the web.
	* Avoid using the web at all cost!

* Hopefully get eomyidae run somewhen.

## Gopher Future (1/1)

* Keep the tildeverses growing and there the idea of gopher alive.

* Always try to make your ideas come true on gopherspace.
	* There are weather stations.
	* There are newspapers on gopher.
	* There are all kind of alternative news sources on gopher.
	* ...
	* What will you create?

* Move what you still on the web to gopher or some other simple protocol.
	* Some SSH service?
	* E-Mail instead of a website?

* Keep us all having fun while doing so! It is our hobby!

## Gopher Lawn (0/1)

Get off my lawn!

* No, please stay. :)

	gopher://bitreich.org/1/lawn

* Central curated index of where to go in gopherspace.

    | 167 links are indexed at the moment.

* Now with search:

	gopher://bitreich.org/7/lawn/search.dcgi

* Practical Usage:

	20:26:14       __20h__ | annna, I'm bored.
	20:26:14         annna | OpenBSD manpages - gopher://perso.pw/1/

* Or here:

	gopher://bitreich.org/1/lawn/bored.dcgi

## Gopher Lawn (1/1)

Everyone please contribute links you have found.

	gopher://bitreich.org/1/scm/gopher-lawn

* Plans:
	* Allow tagging of multiple categories.
	* Allow easier adding.
	* Combine with eomyidae to have a better index.

## Gopher Tutorials

	gopher://bitreich.org/1/tutorials

* This sadly seems to have no interest.
	* Is it not needed?

* Project to write simple texts about gopher.
	* Tutorials on clients
	* Tutorials on servers
	* How to join the community
	* Technical background of gopher
	* History
	* and more ...
* Still in alpha stage.
* Everyone can easily contribute using git.

## Questions, Ideas

Have you liked the last year on gopher?

What keeps you from using gopher for daily usage?

Do you have other questions, ideas?

If not now, open them up on IRC.

## Thanks

Thank you for listening!

If you have further comments, contact me at

	20h@r-36.net

or via IRC as __20h__ on #gopherproject on freenode.