[Bradford] Meeting notes

[John Robert Hudson]

Dear all

I thought that Shi’s email was worth preserving outside the mailing list and 
so I have added it to the website for ease of future reference.

John

On Wednesday, 20 April 2022 13:19:59 BST shi wrote:
> Thanks for the update, John. Also nice to know that the hybrid meeting was
> a success!
> 
> i wanted to add to the IT Stuff update as well that it has been great
> creating the shows with the other Stuffers (heh) who have become some of my
> most favouritest peeps.
> 
> Firstly, wow - we managed 7 years worth of consistent (lol) unadulterated
> tech comedy opinion-based content, about 87 or more episodes in total.
> i'm really proud to have done that, no matter how embarrassing it can sound
> when i listen to the episodes again (and i still do sometimes).
> The pandemic allowed me time to re-prioritise and rest - losing close
> friends to the virus took a toil.
> Ultimately, i decided to scale back all BCB activities and that,
> unfortunately included IT Stuff.
> 
> For me personally, each episode of IT Stuff took a lot of time to prepare
> and create; from collating links and media from everyone involved via
> various channels and researching what news item and things to talk about
> between shows, then desk driving and hosting during shows, to producing and
> editing furiously to upload the shows in time.
> Then comes the enormous work of putting all that content online to the
> website and archive.org, not including the maintenance of said website,
> playlists and github repos ~ it was probably too much work thinking about
> it now but i enjoyed the experience!
> i think i burnt out at the end and all motivation fizzled away, like
> spilled soda pop on hot asphalt.
> In any case, many thanks to everyone who got involved and helped out along
> the way.
> To those that tuned in, i really hope you enjoyed what we made.
> 
> ps: If you haven't tuned in yet, i recommend this episode
> <http://itstuff.org.uk/blog/2019-11-13-ITStuff131119/> as a starter :}
> 
> --
> shi
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 17 Apr 2022 at 21:18, John Robert Hudson via Bradford <
> 
> bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> > Dear all
> > 
> > The notes of our first hybrid meeting last Tuesday are up. £20 was donated
> > to
> > BCB. Thank you.
> > 
> > John
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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