[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Podcast

Mon Feb 27 19:29:15 CET 2012

2012/2/27 Donald Stewart <watersnowrock at gmail.com>:
+> Some suggestions:
+>
+> Maybe an hour is too long - I think that I would get bored after 20 or
+> so minutes.
+>
+> Theme tune wise, I know a few music people, but what sort of thing is wanted?
+>
+> As for different languages, that would be great, again having shorter
+> episodes would help with that.
+
+I agree to the shorter episodes. Now you have to see what (and how
+much) material you have. If you have several different topics you
+could do 1 podcast per month, featuring 3 topics each. More time for
+one topic may make the listener yawn - until recently the attention
+time span for school kids was around 40-50 minutes, recent studies
+have shown that their attention on one topic burns out after 20
+minutes (that's why we need advertizing on tv!).
+
+Suggestions:
+
+Start with a list of possible episodes including notes, like
+ - interview with a packager about updates
+   (as non-technical as possible, using the opportunity to tell people
+out there about contributing by testing)
+ - an application you like best? Describe what you do with it an
+reveal all it's secrets to the listeners
+ - - - you could do that as a series ("Ma favourite application"),
+using 10 Minutes in each podcast
+ - find exhibitions with Mageia's participation and try to get one of
+the participants for a " <event_name> Special"
+
+ - talk about the various sites of the Mageia Web world - there are
+more that a forum and a download page. :)
+ --- (some time needed for research)
+
+Make a list of people you would listen to in such a podcast, then hunt
+them down and tie them to a soundrecorder... ask listeners who they
+would like to hear, ask for feedback, etc.
+
+Build a structure which you will follow in each podcast:
+ - Intro (what will we hear today),
+ - News about Mageia, the organisation, the community
+ - Feedback about last podcast
+ - Timeout (aka music)
+ -  continue with what the intro promised :)
+
+Where you would host the podcasts can stay open until the end of your
+initial planning. You may think about
+ - a website with topics in the queue, reports about the project,
+links to the download / archive
+ - promoting the podcasts (intro of episodes) on facebook & twitter
+
+After you think you may have enough stuff for the first 3 start
+looking for the people you need for these 3 and then start producing.
+Start on #4-6 early so you are always ready to send something else if
+your host had a bus-error one hour before a live interview.
+
+Of course these are just suggestions, coming from the knowledge how
+other people are doing it, ideas how I would go about it, etc. One
+thing all have in common: most important is contents (good & enough),
+everything else is the more easy part.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+