Planet content from Pantheon Systems.

http://drupal.org/aggregator/sources/804

I just checked this feed and there still seems to be more press releases and customer-specific posts. For example:

pantheon-raises-5m-series-foundry - press release
Pantheon for Camps, Projects, Trainings - sales pitch

Hey guys,

I apologize if the recent content has been weak.

For context, we have a long history with the Drupal project — see me, or David or Matt — and are doing what we think is very interesting work to improve people's ability to build great sites with drupal. We would like to continue making posts to the Planet feed when we make advancements, both with our service and with projects hosted on d.o like Panopoly.

We've been working under the hood so much we haven't had time to do proper blog posts, so I've been putting in the little announcements as we're able. I'll try and do a better job going forward.

Another one has come out today, this is a blatant ad and provides no other valuable info to the community other than the services that Pantheon provides.

https://www.getpantheon.com/news/solving-infrastructure-problem

I guess I'm a little confused about the guidelines. I don't feel like that post is a "blatant ad". We're trying to provide some kind of thought leadership for the future of the project. This is consistent with content I've been posting into the planet from Pantheon and Chapter Three for years.

Would this have "no community value" if if I removed references to Pantheon and posted it as an individual rather than from my company? That would only require minor changes.

I've removed the tag but I'd like to get some clarity on what kind of posts are permissible.

It feels like I'm being held to a different standard in my communication because I happen to be associated with a commercial entity, which seems unfair.

For instance you could argue that this post that went up today is also promotional in nature:

https://www.acquia.com/blog/batson-drupal-accelerator

However, I think that this is important information for the community to have. One could also say that this is a job-seeking post, which is expressly prohibited:

http://kattekrab.net/leading-drupal-association-future

But again I don't have a problem with that.

Hey all,

I've been thinking about this all day here at DrupalCon Munich. After re-reading my post a few times I agree that it is too promotional in nature. It pushes too hard.

I am going to need to work harder on future posts to insure that the right tone is used, and that there's more "there there" in terms of substance. I would appreciate critical feedback. We'll be enabling comments as required in the guidelines, but I would also like to hear from anyone on this thread in terms of how I can talk about my work — which I feel is of legitimate interest to the Drupal community — without being perceived as a flim-flam salesman.