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Brett is available weekends (11:00 Pacific and later), and weeknights typically 19:00 - 23:00 Pacific, although starting at 18:00 can be negotiated.

Format

Let's try to record a monthly round-table podcast that discusses Python-related events and news.

The Wikipedia Weekly podcast is a good model for us. Try listening to episode 80 or 81, which are daily wrap-ups from the Wikimania 2009 conference, or episode 78, which is a Skype-recorded episode.

Let's aim for 1/2 an hour to an hour. (Wikipedia Weekly will sometimes be 1.5 hours, but that seems too long; a bit more editing can make the discussion go faster.)

Scheduling time

AMK is available weekends (pretty much any time), and weeknights 7PM-10PM US Eastern (23:00-2:00 UTC).

Brett is available weekends (11:00 Pacific and later), and weeknights typically 19:00 - 23:00 Pacific, although starting at 18:00 can be negotiated.

Technical

Wikipedia Weekly seems to record the audio from one single participant. This means that the audio quality for a remote speaker will occasionally become bad or they'll drop out. It would be better, though more effort, if *everyone* recorded their audio and sent to it to an editor. That way everyone is represented by a high-quality local recording.

Workflow

1. Write an agenda/list of topics and distribute it to all the participants so they can read up on stuff (or not -- up to the participant).

2. Hold a Skype conference call between all the participants. Each participant tries to record their own audio.

3. Everyone sends their audio to an editor who combines the best of each recording into a single track and edits out glitches and other errors.

4. Post the audio.

How to record Skype audio

Skype for Interviews -- how-to video

15 Apps for Recording Skype Conversations -- Windows/MacOS

Linux tool: Skype Call Recorder

Record Skype Calls on Ubuntu (from 2008)

Recording Skype on Linux (from 2006)

We should write a detailed set of instructions here for each platform.

MacOS

Linux

Windows

Podcast (last edited 2009-12-20 20:13:46 by AndrewKuchling)

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