[osol-announce] Re: [osol-discuss] Planet OpenSolaris is now live!

[Stephen Lau]

Planet OpenSolaris is now an official part of the OpenSolaris family,
and can now be found in its new home at:

http://planet.opensolaris.org

cheers,
steve

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:16:18PM +1300, Glynn Foster wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Planet OpenSolaris is now live and unleashed!
> 
>   http://grommit.com/pos
> 
> You'll notice a couple of things from the outset. The current blogroll only
> includes a small selection of people right now. We obviously hope to expand this
> list in the future, but any additions will be according to a pretty strong
> editorial policy. Where possible, we want to keep Planet OpenSolaris to be as
> relevant and readable as its counterpart, Planet GNOME [1] and I'd personally
> like to thank Jeff Waugh for paving the way there, and his support in getting
> this running. Planet OpenSolaris will be predominantly *English speaking*,
> though I'd also like to encourage other communities to set up similar
> aggregations for their language or region, and I'd be happy to help people set
> those up.
> 
> So why not use the existing blogs infrastructure? The current setup is difficult
> to read, forcing you to click through to the posts that you want to read about.
> The current list of bloggers aren't necessarily representative of the community
> that is developing around the source. By mapping a bunch of people who write
> about OpenSolaris to their (IRC) nicks and faces, everyone will be able to
> identify with various tasks and projects going, and create a real sense of
> community.
> 
> Many thanks are due to Steve Lau for his kind support of grommit.com. For now it
> will be hosted there, until such a stage that planet.opensolaris.org becomes
> available [2]. Also thanks are due to Planet Solaris [3], which still has a
> valid place if Dave is keen to continue maintenance on it. For those currently
> on the blogroll, send me your Hackergotchis [4], or alternatively point me at a
> suitable picture I can use for you.
> 
> Rock on OpenSolaris!
> 
> 
> Glynn
> 
> [1] http://planet.gnome.org
> [2] Yes, 'pos' was intentional
> [3] http://planetsolaris.org
> [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackergotchi
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