About Planet Grep

Planet Grep is the Belgian Free/Open Source planet. A 'planet' is a website that aggregates blogs into a 'stream of news' type of site. There are many such planets that aggregate many different blog collections; an overview is given at the Planet-index, in case you want another.

Planet Grep is maintained by Wouter Verhelst and Kris Buytaert, and runs on a server hosted by NixSys BVBA.

In adding blog feeds to the planet, we currently follow the following set of guidelines:

• A planet is a website to promote a community, rather than a technology or some such. Therefore, it should be clear that Planet Grep is a website about people involved in Free and Open Source software, rather than Free and Open Source software itself. As a result, Planet Grep is open to people who 'work with or participate to free and open source software', which is not necessarily the same thing as 'people who write about free and open source software' (although it may be).
• Planet Grep is not a 'tomorrow's newspaper headers' item on the late night radio news; rather, it should be a fully-functional webpage with good content that can be read independently. Therefore, Planet Grep prefers not to run blog feeds that contain only so-called 'teasers'. That's not to say you can't have an occasional teaser on your blog and still be on Planet Grep; but the default should be to have no teasers, rather than the other way around.

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