[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Podcast

Mon Feb 27 22:54:14 CET 2012

On 27/02/12 18:29, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+> 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.
+>
+Thanks for your email wobo/Wolfgang.
+