[Newark] PodCast

[Chris Hayes]

Steve:
Absolutely. That sounds like a really worthwhile idea. I too would be
up for that, introducing a Newark to what Linux - and perhaps more
importantly, open source - is and how it might be of use to them,
sounds like a fantastic opportunity.

I'm assuming that this is something that you (Steve) would be best to
pursue on our behalf? Seeing as you already know people there.

As for Boundary Sound although I'd heard of them, I didn't realise
that they were a community radio station.


Paul:
I tend to find that the Linux Link Tech show is pretty good, but tends
to focus mostly on interviews - and it gets quite thin at times also.
It's roughly 2 hours long, I believe - and they could easily condense
that into an hour - at least from the episodes I've listened to. On
the upside, I enjoy their playful banter and informal approach to
interviews - it could just do with being a little more focused. It's
certainly one of the better Linux podcasts. The 'looseness' of that
show is at a direct contrast with the JavaPosse - who tend to keep
very much on topic, and remain at a constant fast pace (not that I've
listened to it for a while now).


Chris Hayes

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Paul Mellors <paul at paulmellors.net> wrote:
>
>  On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 10:50 +0000, Steve Caddy wrote:
>  > Chris Hayes wrote:
>  >
>  > > Would anyone here like to do such a podcast if it doesn't exist?
>  >
>  > I can certainly help out with creating podcasts...
>  >
>  > ...however there's possibly something better on the horizon. You may, or may
>  > not, be aware that there's a group of people in Newark trying to set up a
>  > community radio station (anyone heard of Boundary Sound?). Essentially, you can
>  > consider this "access radio", where anyone who has something (clean and legal)
>  > to say can put together a programme, and have it broadcast. Now don't get any
>  > idea of "prime time" exposure or anything like that - something as minority as
>  > Linux is likely to get a 30 minute slot at 1am on a Thursday morning, or
>  > something like that (ok, I know the people involved, and it wouldn't be
>  > anything nearly that bad), but it'd be one way to get a podcast some slightly
>  > more serious exposure (after all, a "podcast" is just a pre-recorded radio
>  > programme right?). What's more, if we were broadcasting it on such a station,
>  > we could use the station's studio facilities to make a half decent job of it.
>  >
>  > At the moment, Boundary Sound are awaiting news from Ofcom to see if their
>  > application has been successul, so there's nothing definate just yet, but don't
>  > you find it an exciting prospect to promote Linux to a wider audience?
>  >
>  > Steve
>  >
>
>  That sounds ace :) i'd be well up for that :)
>
>  Paul
>
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