On 2022-08-13 21:44, dnt via Hpr wrote:
Honestly, I think the idea that HPR would be a podcast hosting platform
has no basis on anything. It's largely a self-serving misconception for
those who use it as one.
Let's give everyone the benefit of the doubt here.
Probably no one is really upset about the inlaws posting their shows as
HPR shows, they clearly fit in, and it's good to fill a slot. I see this
like there's been a kind of symbiotic relationship, and then they
misrepresented this relationship, which has put HPR in a slightly
uncomfortable position. It shouldn't change just to get comfortable
again. HPR should just reiterate that it is not a podcast hosting
platform, but rather a podcast, and that as far as it's concerned, Linux
In-Laws is a series within HPR, as are others.
To give you some background, the decision to only release material
created exclusively for HPR, was taken by the mail list. But it was a
hard decision to make, and even harder to implement.
http://hackerpublicradio.org/pipermail/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org/2012-October/011545.html
At the time we had to drop three shows from the podcast and we have
turned away more than 20 different podcasts since then. We started
https://freeculturepodcasts.org/, and have the "Podcast Recommendation"
Series in order to lighten the message we're giving in having to turn
good people away.
It sucks turning these shows away, especially when we had a call for
shows open. Thankfully most of these shows remained friends and
understood the reasons for the decision, were grateful of the publicity
we could provide, and many went on to be HPR contributors, supplying
shows and staffing the HPR booths.
While there may have been doubt to start with, the Linux InLaws now
definitely qualifies as a syndicated show. We have rules - rules that
were agreed after a fair bit of thought and discussion in the community
- but the Inlaws are now outside these rules which puts us in a
difficult position, whether arrived at by accident or not.
So to me at least, this is rather more than putting HPR into a slightly
uncomfortable position, it calls into question the impartiality with
which we applied the rules.
I need an answer to the question "why are they allowed to be on HPR and
${podcast} isn't ?" and right now I don't have one.
--
Regards,
Ken Fallon (PA7KEN,G5KEN)
https://kenfallon.com
https://hackerpublicradio.org/hosts/ken_fallon
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