Hi Ken I am one of the many occasional contributors who is always (and genuinely) "just about" to put a show together. Slapped wrist accepted, will do better.
We are very fortunate that the prolific hosts generally put out such excellent, well-presented shows. Could there, perhaps, be some mileage in contacting all the top Linux and more general IT podcasts to put out an invitation for their listeners, or even the hosts themselves, to contribute. There are some extremely knowledgeable people amongst those presenters, so it's probably safe to assume that this will be reflected to some extent in their audiences. Cheers Nige (hpr Beeza) LibreOffice - Free and open source office suite: LibreOffice Website<https://www.libreoffice.org/> Respects your privacy, and gives you back control over your data ________________________________ From: Hpr <[email protected]> on behalf of Ken Fallon <[email protected]> Sent: 12 May 2023 10:14 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [Hpr] Policy Change, Call to action for Host to Show ratio Hi All, First , we need shows immediately as there is an empty queue next week, and the number of Emergency/Reserve shows are also dwindling. So please finish that show you were thinking of submitting and send it in. If you don't care when it's released please put "Use as Emergency show" in the show notes for now. ... hold music while you do that ... I am concerned about the future of HPR, as a project where the shows are produced by the community. At this rate we cease to be a bar camp style podcast and become one where the shows are provided by a rotating team of "regulars". Ideally we would like it so that every show is contributed by a different host, giving a 1:1 ratio between show and host. So far this year all but 4 of the submissions are from hosts who submitted more than one show, a 3:1 ratio. Ahuka aside, the majority are as a result of kindhearted hosts who contribute shows at the last minute to fill the vacant slots. To make this problem more visible I would like to introduce the following Scheduling Guideline "No host should submit any more than one show in a two week period." Of course these are guidelines etc etc., but it should still allow prolific hosts to submit shows while not masking the underlying issue that we have yet to address. Which is: We need new hosts, but we also need old hosts who have not submitted shows this year to submit a show. How do we solve this problem ? -- Regards, Ken Fallon (PA7KEN,G5KEN) https://kenfallon.com<https://kenfallon.com/> https://hackerpublicradio.org/hosts/ken_fallon ID Host Total 159 HPR Volunteers 12 198 Ahuka 9 391 Some Guy On The Internet 8 318 Archer72 7 282 Mike Ray 5 30 Ken Fallon 5 326 Brian in Ohio 5 36 operat0r 3 365 Bookewyrmm 3 225 Dave Morriss 3 401 Mechatroniac 3 415 enistello 2 407 Celeste 2 268 Andrew Conway 2 152 Claudio Miranda 2 293 Rho`n 2 416 screwtape 2 342 norrist 2 238 Jon Kulp 2 375 minnix 2 201 MrX 2 408 Stache_AF 1 383 Paul Quirk 1 209 David Whitman 1 377 Zen_Floater2 1
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