Planet OpenSolaris

November 15, 2006 12:04 am General

Planet OpenSolaris is now live and unleashed! 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 and I’d personally like to thank Jeff 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 for his kind support of grommit.com. For now it will be hosted there, until such a stage that planet.opensolaris.org becomes available. Also thanks are due to Planet Solaris, 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, or alternatively point me at a suitable picture I can use for you.

Rock on OpenSolaris!

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