{"id":29431,"date":"2017-01-19T11:36:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T19:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.xamarin.com\/?p=29431"},"modified":"2019-03-25T19:54:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T03:54:52","slug":"planet-xamarin-follow-your-favorite-community-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/planet-xamarin-follow-your-favorite-community-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet Xamarin: Follow Your Favorite Community Bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/03\/PlanetXWhiteTransparent.png\" alt=\"PlanetXWhiteTransparent\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29433\" \/>The Xamarin development community is expanding and flourishing, with the Xamarin blog and Xamarin MVPs offering a plethora of knowledge for developers to soak up. As the community has continued to grow, so has the number of amazing developers blogging, recording, and podcasting about their libraries, apps, and experiences with Xamarin. In light of this, we&#8217;ve worked with community members to create a community blog aggregation platform that anyone can subscribe to via RSS. We call it <a href=\"http:\/\/planetxamarin.com\">Planet Xamarin<\/a> and it&#8217;s launching today!<\/p>\n<h2>Follow Planet Xamarin<\/h2>\n<p>Head to our home page <a href=\"http:\/\/planetxamarin.com\">planetxamarin.com<\/a>, where you can browse the current list of authors, preview the feed, and, of course, subscribe. In addition to a main <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetxamarin.com\/feed\">RSS feed<\/a>, Planet Xamarin also has active <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/planetxamarin\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/planetxamarin\">Facebook<\/a> pages that automatically post when any of the community bloggers do.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/03\/PlanetXamarin2.png\" alt=\"PlanetXamarin2\" width=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29456\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re an active Xamarin developer blogging about Xamarin development, we invite you to read through the quick guide on the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/planetxamarin\/planetxamarin\">Planet Xamarin GitHub page<\/a> on how to add your own content to the Planet Xamarin feed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/03\/PlanetXamarin3.png\" alt=\"PlanetXamarin3\" width=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29457\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Open Source<\/h2>\n<p>Planet Xamarin was created by the community and for the community. Thanks to Geoffrey Huntley, who maintains an <a href=\"http:\/\/weeklyxamarin.com\">active weekly Xamarin community newsletter<\/a>, who worked with <a href=\"https:\/\/readify.net\/\">Readify<\/a> to open source their RSS aggregation tool, which acts as the base of Planet Xamarin. You can find the source code and help contribute over on the project&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/planetxamarin\/planetxamarin\">GitHub <\/a>page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thee Xamarin development community is expanding and flourishing, with the Xamarin blog and Xamarin MVPs offering a plethora of knowledge for developers to soak up. As the community has continued to grow, so has the number of amazing developers blogging, recording, and podcasting about their libraries, apps, and experiences with Xamarin. In light of this, we&#8217;ve worked with community members to create a community blog aggregation platform that anyone can subscribe to via RSS. We call it <a href=\"http:\/\/planetxamarin.com\">Planet Xamarin<\/a> and it&#8217;s launching today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":544,"featured_media":41054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,291],"tags":[589,4],"class_list":["post-29431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-developers","category-xamarin-platform","tag-community","tag-xamarin-platform"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Thee Xamarin development community is expanding and flourishing, with the Xamarin blog and Xamarin MVPs offering a plethora of knowledge for developers to soak up. As the community has continued to grow, so has the number of amazing developers blogging, recording, and podcasting about their libraries, apps, and experiences with Xamarin. 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