Planet GentooWe run a service, Planet Gentoo, which aggregates articles written by contributing developers. This is optional, but it is encouraged that you participate. It helps communication between developers and users find it to be an interesting read too. In order to post content to the planet, you need to have your own weblog ("blog"). Many sites provide this as a free service, or you can host it yourself (if you have the resources). Alternatively, we can host a blog for you. We aim to keep Planet Gentoo's content relevant to Gentoo and/or Gentoo-related developments and events. If we host your blog for you, you are expected to keep the content on-topic (Gentoo and Gentoo-related articles). You also need to understand that if you ever lose or drop your developer status, you will no longer be able to write articles on your blog. If you have a blog elsewhere, then it needs to be able to provide an XML content feed. If you blog into categories, we need to be able to get an XML feed which covers your "Gentoo" category but no others. This is probably a non-issue, as almost all blogs provide standardised feeds like this. This aggregation is currently available in two forms. Planet Gentoo shows only posts marked as 'on-topic', and related to Gentoo development. Gentoo Universe shows all posts to that developer's blog, for those who are interested in more than strictly Gentoo-related news. Although this is somewhat common sense, please be careful with what you write about. Your views may be inappropriately interpreted as the views of Gentoo. Please be careful not to damage our image. If you are interested in contributing to Planet Gentoo, please write to planet@gentoo.org, either requesting a weblog to be hosted by Gentoo, or giving details of your already existing weblog. We'll then work out the details and get you up and running.
All developers can be reached by e-mail using nickname@gentoo.org. Resources offered by the planet project are: Using b2evolution, Planet Gentoo hosts blogs for any Gentoo developers who are in need of a home. Contact one of the Planet Gentoo admins to setup an account. Planet Gentoo and Gentoo Universe can display an icon or headshot of the developer on the website. For ease of maintenance, we use gravatars (globally recognized avatars) which the developer can manage personally. Users can create their own gravatar at http://www.gravatar.com/. By default, the MD5 string we use to access the personalized avatars is username@gentoo.org. If you already have an account under a different e-mail address and would like to use that instead, please contact a developer to have your configuration updated. |
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