On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazz...@free-electrons.com> wrote: > Robert, > > On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:29:16 +0200, Robert Schwebel wrote: > >> Last year after ELC-E after a mini-crossbuild-summit, we asked if it was >> possible to get planet.elinux.org as an RSS aggregator site, similar to >> planet.linaro.org, planetkde.org etc. I still think the idea is great, >> as it would give us a central place to look at if you want to know what >> the embedded Linux community is doing. >> >> What do you think? Would that be possible, technically? > > Yes, I remember that we discussed planet.elinux.org with Peter > Korsgaard (Cc'ed) and you, and Peter and I contacted Tim with this idea > after our discussion, but it didn't go anywhere.
Acutally, I've got planet.elinux.org almost set up. The planet.planet software is in place. I just have to match the skin to the elinux.org skin and add a wiki page to elinux.org describing how to get embedded linux blogs onto the planet site. Thanks for bringing this back to the fore, as I'd kind of put it on the back burner for a bit. > > This idea however hasn't left my mind, so just less than two weeks ago, > I have started a news site dedicated to Embedded Linux: > http://www.emlinews.net/, but I didn't announce it publicly until now. > I was planning on waiting a bit more before doing a public > announcement, but this discussion seems like a good way to announce > this project. > > It does not intend to have long editorial articles (like LWN.net has), > but rather short news of things happening in the embedded Linux space: > hardware platforms, boards, tools, kernel stuff, Android stuff, > conferences, meetings, etc. > > It is of course different from a "simple" RSS aggregator, in that each > article needs to be written by someone. My plan is to open up the site > so that people can contribute news items. For now, it is only a simple > blog, to experiment whether there is interest for such a news site, and > to see whether it is sustainable or not to regularly write news on this > topic on an volunteer basis. > > Best regards, > > Thomas > -- > Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons > Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux > development, consulting, training and support. > http://free-electrons.com > _______________________________________________ > Celinux-dev mailing list > Celinux-dev@lists.celinuxforum.org > https://lists.celinuxforum.org/mailman/listinfo/celinux-dev _______________________________________________ Celinux-dev mailing list Celinux-dev@lists.celinuxforum.org https://lists.celinuxforum.org/mailman/listinfo/celinux-dev
