A list of active Gopher Servers can be found here

There is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel dedicated to the Gopher protocol, #gopherproject (irc://chat.freenode.net/gopherproject), on the Freenode IRC server. Information on Freenode is available on the World Wide Web at: http://freenode.net/.

An Email mailing list for Gopher discussions, questions, and advocacy is available. To susbscribe, send an e-mail with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line to: gopher-request@complete.org.

There is a Gopher Newsgroup (network News protocol) comp.infosystems.gopher. The newsgroup focusses on four aspects of Gopher: Gopher Client Development; Gopher Server Development; The Protocol "Gopher"; Gopherspace Engineering. An archived reflection of the Gopher newsgroup is available on the World Wide Web at: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.infosystems.gopher/topics.

There is a Discussion Group for persons interested in developing a new Protocol based on Gopher. The URL is: http://lists.shii.org/listinfo.cgi/heffalump-shii.org.
There is also a Discussion Group for persons interested in developing new(er) Gopher Projects. The URL is: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/gopher-project.