On 27/02/12 18:29, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
2012/2/27 Donald Stewart<[email protected]>:
Some suggestions:
Maybe an hour is too long - I think that I would get bored after 20 or
so minutes.
Theme tune wise, I know a few music people, but what sort of thing is wanted?
As for different languages, that would be great, again having shorter
episodes would help with that.
I agree to the shorter episodes. Now you have to see what (and how
much) material you have. If you have several different topics you
could do 1 podcast per month, featuring 3 topics each. More time for
one topic may make the listener yawn - until recently the attention
time span for school kids was around 40-50 minutes, recent studies
have shown that their attention on one topic burns out after 20
minutes (that's why we need advertizing on tv!).
Suggestions:
Start with a list of possible episodes including notes, like
- interview with a packager about updates
(as non-technical as possible, using the opportunity to tell people
out there about contributing by testing)
- an application you like best? Describe what you do with it an
reveal all it's secrets to the listeners
- - - you could do that as a series ("Ma favourite application"),
using 10 Minutes in each podcast
- find exhibitions with Mageia's participation and try to get one of
the participants for a "<event_name> Special"
- talk about the various sites of the Mageia Web world - there are
more that a forum and a download page. :)
--- (some time needed for research)
Make a list of people you would listen to in such a podcast, then hunt
them down and tie them to a soundrecorder... ask listeners who they
would like to hear, ask for feedback, etc.
Build a structure which you will follow in each podcast:
- Intro (what will we hear today),
- News about Mageia, the organisation, the community
- Feedback about last podcast
- Timeout (aka music)
- continue with what the intro promised :)
Where you would host the podcasts can stay open until the end of your
initial planning. You may think about
- a website with topics in the queue, reports about the project,
links to the download / archive
- promoting the podcasts (intro of episodes) on facebook& twitter
After you think you may have enough stuff for the first 3 start
looking for the people you need for these 3 and then start producing.
Start on #4-6 early so you are always ready to send something else if
your host had a bus-error one hour before a live interview.
Of course these are just suggestions, coming from the knowledge how
other people are doing it, ideas how I would go about it, etc. One
thing all have in common: most important is contents (good& enough),
everything else is the more easy part.
Thanks for your email wobo/Wolfgang.
