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I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the positive feedback from readers of the Utah Open Source Planet. I hoped that it would be a cool place for UT’s Open Source hackers to learn something more about each other and interact a bit. It seems that it has done just that. People have taken partial ownership of the site and consider it part of the community. I think that’s great. Thanks to everyone who participates and allows their feeds to be picked up here.

It seems that the best way to get people to notice the Planet (and your feed) is to link to it from your blogs. Have a look at the top 10 ways readers get here:

1. 458 - google
2. 289 - bloglines.com
3. 277 - halls.lug-nut.com
4. 115 - blog.josephhall.com
5. 110 - blog.mecworks.com
6. 107 - pthree.org
7. 106 - fozzilinymoo.org
8. 95 - planet.gnome.org
9. 61 - blogs.gnome.org
10. 45 - gundy.org

Planet citizens are second only to google in bringing new readers to the UOSP. Please consider blogging about UOSP if you have not yet done so. Also, a blog-role is a great place to link to the Planet.

Those of you who don’t have your headshot to me, stop being shy|lazy|forgetful. We like putting names to faces. Don’t worry, I think everyone hates their hackergochi. Get me a picture with good lighting for best results.

Lastly, those of you who read and have not added your feeds - get on the ball! We want to hear what you’re hacking on (BSD, Linux, Life… whatever)! I personally know several people that are conspicuously missing from the Planet. How about the guys in southern Utah? Where are you? Where are all the Novell hackers? What about the guys at Linux Networx? How about Xmission guys? I’d like to see the Open Source centric companies show up in numbers (see Guru Labs for an example).

I guess that’s it for now. Thanks again to all those who make UOSP fun to read!