Well after months of dormance, 
lucid.observer is back online
with a new home. 

gopher://lucid.observer

It's now built on openBSD and 
at the moment it's a gopher 
server. I'm pretty excited to
have created that, 
although it was quite simple
it took me a while. 

Server specs: 

 - OpenBSD
 - Gopher (gophernicus) 
 - Per user and public gopher
 - ssh, shell tools and local mail
 - 300gb shared user home space
 - i5 4xCPU 2.84gz
 - 16gb ram

Hopefully some local chat/
message board, although local
email could cover most of the
communication, like group
email can be easily reached,
and everyone could save these
conversation personally. 

Garden: 

The garden is a big part of 
the idea. Where we can store 
books, in the library section
and have some sort of wiki to
record ideas, practices and 
concepts.

How I see the gopher and
community used: 

I want to open up the server
for those who want to explore 
their spiritual and creative 
life. Gopher can be used for
dream journal, karma yoga 
journaling, creative process...
Gopher is very well suited for
music and audio too! 

Example of gopher space: 

 - Dream Journal
 - Personal growth
 - Creative process 
 - Smolweb music sharing (your own)
 - Community building
 - Hacking and permacomputing
 - De-digitization

What I want to focus on is 
creativity and human evolution.

I understand that might seems 
a bit limiting but I want to
have a 'theme' around this new
community. I'm not looking to 
create a huge community either, 
I understand that 'spiritually 
inclined' and smolweb, ssh and 
gopher are quite opposite in 
a sense! 

If you are interested to help
and share and use the space, 
please email me at gef@sdf.org
and let me know how you would 
like to use your account. 
Once you're approved I'll create
the account for you and you can 
send me your key for password-less
access. 

This is not for 'backup' account
or secondary tech shell account. 
It's not a development shell
where tons of tools will be availble. 
I'll keep the number of packages 
install to a minimum, while making
it fun to use. 

It's also on the 'experimental' 
phase. It's hosted in my studio
therefore it's limited in bandwith
and powerfailure are frequent
in the winter.