The roads I take...

I just read a couple of messages about people shooting down a post about one community member's political views on Planet Mozilla.

I'm shocked once again how everything not conforming to "elite" far-left-wing views is being seen as rude, backwards, and unacceptable.

This is one reason why I post less and less in public at all about my personal views, as due to often not conforming with what is seen as being "cool" and "hype" in the left-wing standards apparently being in place widely both in the country I live in and the communities I tend to be part of online, I tend to get bombarded with negative statements every time I open my mouth about anything except my work.

Being open is to a large degree about accepting that other people have different views, even on controversial topics, tolerating their views, and requiring other people to change those to be able to work in the same community with them.
Unfortunately, it's is often those who insist most to call themselves "open" who seem to not be able to accept that.

That's what I find most sad about this discussion. Unfortunately it also means that people will not learn a lot about my personality on this blog - contrary to Gerv I don't have the stamina to be shot down on every controversial view I might take here (and note that I'll not even take a stand on either side of the topic he's writing about - I'll claim I know too little about the specific case to make any determination).

Rechtzeitig zum Erscheinen von Firefox 5 ist jetzt mozilla.de mit neuem Inhalt und Design verfürgbar, als zentrale Stelle, die zu den deutschsprachiugen Community-Angeboten weist.

Dazu passend wurde jetzt der deutsche "Planet Mozilla", der Blog-Aggregator der deutschsprachigen Mozilla-Gemeinschaft, auch auf das neue Design umgestellt - Dank an Elchi3 dafür!

Wie schon früher beschrieben freuen wir uns über weitere Blogs aus der deutschsprachigen Mozilla-Gemeinschaft, die wir hier aufnehmen können!

Anfangs war es bloß eine Idee, aber jetzt ist es Wirklichkeit:

Ein "Planet" von gesammelten Blog-Meldungen aus dem deutschsprachuigen Teil der Mozilla-Community ist hier!

Zu finden ist dieser unter planet.mozilla.de - und eine Menge an zusätzlichen Leuten sollte noch hinzu kommen, die jetzige Gruppe ist nur ein erster Anfang.

Alle, die in der Mozilla-Community aktiv sind und ihr eigenes Blog führen, in dem man Posts sowohl in deutscher Sprache findet, als auch über die Arbeit im Mozilla-Bereich, möchte ich bitten, einen Bug anzulegen und ich werde den Feed hinzufügen (wir bevorzugen Atom mit vollem Beitrag im Feed).

Es gelten übrigens die gleichen Regeln wie für den allgemeinen "Planet Mozilla": Es ist eure Sache, welchen Feed ihr uns angebt (so lange die Meldungen in deutscher Sprache sind), aber wir würden gerne die gesamte Persönlichkeit der Individuen in unserer Community zeigen, also braucht ihr euch nicht auf Meldungen beschränken, die einzig und alleine Mozilla zum Thema haben - wir freuen uns darüber, dass das Leben der Leute in dieser Gemeinschaft viele Facetten hat und sich nicht nur um ein einziges Thema dreht!

Ich hoffe, wir lesen uns am deutschsprachingen Planet Mozilla!

Blogging life in many areas, especially in OSS developer communities like GNOME, KDE or Mozilla sometimes seems to actually orbit around planets, which are basically website feed aggregators that collect blogs from the whole community and show their entries at a single place. This way, you can read or watch one single site/feed and get a glimpse of information from the whole community.

Planet Mozilla is just such a site, and there has been some discussion recently about its administration, with the outcome that Asa is probably owning it now, a new set of peers for that administration has been decided, and we'll end up with this main planet site having the full range of all blog entries of "active Mozilla Community members" and a second feed that only has their Mozilla-related entries. Asa is doing a great job there, and despite of some differences of opinion I may with him from time to time, I'm glad he's taking care of that now.
Additionally, for all of us who are in the L10n community, there's another planet page up on the new L10n server, named as Planet Mozilla L10N.
I'll try to get this blog aggegrated on those planets, at least as soon as I have tag support here and can filter feeds for those where required (L10n, future Mozilla-related-only planet).

In other planetary news, I'm still a bit sad that the next Space Shuttle launch to our home planet's orbit has been pushed out due to damage caused by a hail storm and now can only take place after the ISS crew changeover from Expedition 14 to Expedition 15, which means I have to wait until at least late April to see another hopefully great Station construction mission. I hope they get the second half of P6 solar panels retracted more easily than the first half back on the STS-116 mission last December.

But until STS-117 goes out into orbit, I'll keep hoping their preparations go well and stick to those planets down here...