Julian's Blog

I'd like to have Planet Feed Reader for LavaNet 'Ohana Blogs

I'm more a tech person. So when I think of things, I tend to think of things from a technical perspective.

Something that I want to have with the LavaNet 'Ohana Blogs is the concept of 'Planets' using the Planet Feed Reader.

What is Planet?

Planet is an awesome 'river of news' feed reader. It downloads news feeds published by web sites and aggregates their content together into a single combined feed, latest news first.

Maybe it helps if you take a look at some such as Planet GNOME or Planet SUSE.

Planet is particularly popular with Free and Open Source Software projects. Part of this is that the FOSS community really embraces the web and FOSS developers tend to be pretty tuned in and write in blogs.

I'd like to get the LavaNet Systems department more involved in writing blogs. Besides myself, only Michael really has an active blog. So we could really open up the communications line with customers on the up and coming aspects of LavaNet and have a Planet for the Systems department. Planet Support would work nicely too.

But potentially we could have other Planets that are more generic and open to everyone. I think it's something unique that I haven't seen the Planet software used for in a large scale (non-tech communities using Planet).