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 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> 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 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-blo...

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 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 http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community

Hi all, On 03/08/13 03:01, Stefano Maffulli wrote:

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.

I've been watching this feed for a while, and normally I view this on my desktop computer, where I've configured Firefox to disable animations on GIF images. Today I looked at my aggregated feed on my phone, and discovered that the images were animated. (I haven't figured out how to do the same in Firefox for Android.) Highly distracting trying to read a page of text with things bouncing around in one's field of view. Now I'm not going to start jumping up and down about how pointless posts containing nothing more than a link to an animated gif are. Rather, I just flexed a little coding muscle to filter them out. So those who are similarly irritated by these animations, I have a sanitised version of the OpenStack planet available here: http://portal.redhatters.yi.org/openstack/ and there is an ATOM feed here: http://portal.redhatters.yi.org/openstack/atom.xml Right now, the filter script is rather crude:

$ cat filters/nogifs.py #!/usr/bin/python import sys import re

data = sys.stdin.read() print re.sub(r'<img[^>]+src=["\'][^"\']+.gif["\'][^>]*>','',data)

I'll expand on this if I feel the need to (i.e. if people start posting the animations as APNGs, I'll block all <img> tags). People can always click on the link headings to get the original posts should they see a burning desire to see the original post anyway. The service is hosted on my own personal equipment on my own Internet service. I do this more for my own personal use, but I don't mind sharing it with the community at large. I doubt I'm the only one that find GIFs annoying. Anyways, keep up the good work on OpenStack, I hope to get more into it into the future... and I hope the above feed is helpful for those who might want to keep up-to-date without the distractions. Regards, -- ## -,-''''-. ###### Stuart Longland, Contractor ##. : ## : ## 38b Douglas Street ## # ## -'` .#' Milton, QLD, 4064 '#' *' '-. *' http://www.vrt.com.au S Y S T E M S T: +61 7 3535 9619 F: +61 7 3535 9699