I've tried to push folks blogging to step out behind their handles and put their names out there. I think an OSGeo Planet that were to mimic the Planet Gnome would be a super idea. I've not pushed the issue as I've tried to be as open as possible with Planet Geospatial, but if I were to create a more specific planet, I would "require" real name and possibly even photos. I think that adds so much credibility to the community than all the handles that folks seem to use.
Setting up a planet is very easy (Use Venus, not Planet) but feel free to consider me a resource as to what I've learned and struggled on over the years with Planet Geospatial. I spend almost no time managing it beyond cleaning out old feeds (probably not an issue with Planet OSGeo) and adding new feeds (hopefully there a lot of folks wanting to blog about OSGeo). James Fee TEC Inc. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mateusz Loskot Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:03 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Planet OSGeo Fawcett, David wrote: > I personally like reading the OS bloggers mixed in with the proprietary > bloggers along with the bloggers who write about using tools from both > camps, all at planetgs.com. Yup, planetgs.com does a great job and James Fee is a pioneer in gathering geospatial people from both worlds in common place. However, my personal feeling is that there is a lot or too much of anonymity on the Planet Geospatial, but communities are not formed by anonymous individuals. When I look at the list of aggregated blogs, I hardly can identify who is hiding behind all those names. If you check the list of members of http://planet.debian.org/ http://planet.ubuntu.com/ http://planet.gnome.org/ you see *only* and *real* names of people. IMHO, this is a very important difference for how community is visible to the world. Cheers -- Mateusz Loskot http://mateusz.loskot.net _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
