I share Tristan's feelings regarding the OpenStack reactions. In the past, nearly every blog was interesting but now I'm having to filter. Happy to advertise OpenStack reactions but let's have it as different RSS feed so those who wish to assign different priorities can do so. Overall, it is good to open up the feeds but we also need to take care to ensure the content remains of interest to the community as previously. Tim From: Tristan Goode [mailto:tristan@aptira.com] Sent: 03 August 2013 06:43 To: Stefano Maffulli Cc: Community User Groups, OpenStack Subject: Re: [openstack-community] Updates in the OpenStack blog policy It's a shame that this has happened, but I understand it given that some have chosen to use the blog for their company marketing. I guess it would have been difficult to moderate because the moderators could never please all the people all the time. It's also unfortunate because looking at planet.openstack.org <http://planet.openstack.org> this morning, I need to wade through pages and pages of stupid animated gifs. I hope the official communication on the blog is "fair and balanced" :-), the Open Mic series has been great but 8 of the 18 posts from one company is rather a lot! On 03/08/2013, at 3:05 AM, Stefano Maffulli <stefano@openstack.org <mailto:stefano@openstack.org> > wrote: Dear all, starting today the OpenStack Planet aggregator on http://planet.openstack.org will become the main tool for community members (individual and companies) to disseminate information about OpenStack. The feed from the Planet is featured on openstack.org <http://openstack.org> home page and it's an important source of information for the weekly newsletter. The OpenStack blog at http://www.openstack.org/blog will be reserved for official communication by OpenStack Foundation only. The instructions to add blogs to the OpenStack Planet are published on the wiki https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/AddingYourBlog. The folks at Hastexo also have published comprehensive instructions, starting from how to create a blog <http://www.hastexo.com/blogs/florian/2013/07/09/so-you-want-be-openstack-blogger-heres-how> and offer to help new bloggers. If you're not familiar with the Gerrit review workflow, please send the OpenStack RSS/Atom feed of your blog to communitymngr@openstack.org <mailto:communitymngr@openstack.org> with an image to have it included in the Planet. Regards, Stefano -- Ask and answer questions on https://ask.openstack.org _______________________________________________ Community mailing list Community@lists.openstack.org <mailto:Community@lists.openstack.org> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community