[Newark] Radio Show

[Chris Hayes]

Indeed, a programme that only dealt with Linux would need to be absurdly
technical to maintain an audience.

Something that I haven't mentioned is that we'd also like to have the
programme available as a podcast, after its live broadcast.

So far, I'd like to include the following elements in each show:
* FOSS/Linux news stories, breif disussion of the main stories, possibly.
* Certainly at least one major discussion regarding a FOSS/Linux thing, such
as a topic like, um, license proliferation - for instance. Or possibly a
certain application, language or technology. Or an in depth look at a single
news story.. etc.
* Review of a (likely obscure) FOSS application - or maybe a segment like
Desert Island Disks (from season 1 of LUGRadio) where people can suggest a
set of applications that they cannot live without, inc. breif discussion.
* Showcase of between 1 and 3 (depending on time left) awesome "Free
Culture" born music tracks (most likely forming the outro).

If possible, I'd like it so at least some of the show is accessible to a
non-technical (or non-Linux, at least) audience and might even encourage
certain memebers of that demographic to give FOSS/Linux a shot... I could do
with ideas of how best to acheive that.. Possibly the format of the show
should be news - accessible-content - too-geeky - outro...

Things like OpenOffice.org - Dosbox - Wine... Dualbooting/Ubuntu - the
ideals behind Free Software, or an explaination of the Open Source
development model, etc. can be talked about in the "accessible" part.
Something to ease people in...


Kind Regards,
Christopher



On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Khismett Riddle <spindleflax at gmail.com>wrote:

> It depends how technical you want it to be; if it's a community radio maybe
> you don't want to talk about the really geeky stuff. I'm not sure how many
> people who aren't at all aware of FOSS would listen to a radio show about
> it, though. Perhaps if the radio's just on, they'd leave it on and hear
> Newark LUG's broadcast. Either way, there're a few projects that deserve
> talking about (Wine, Blender, Gimp, maybe DOSBox) and plenty more if it's
> FOSS as well as Linux, rather than just Linux.
>
> Tom
>
> 2009/2/18 Andy Goldschmidt <andy.goldschmidt at forlinux.co.uk>
>
>>  I was listening to Boundary Sound yesterday.... very nice !!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 11:57 +0000, Chris Hayes wrote:
>>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> A few of you will be aware that I've looking into the prospect of
>> producing a FLOSS/Linux programme for our local community radio station; the
>> New 102.6FM Boundary Sound. I'm at the point where we're ready for ideas for
>> a pilot, I've got some ideas myself - but what would you guys like to hear
>> in a radio show like this?
>>
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>> Chris Hayes
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