We are super grateful to have the Fedora Podcast available to share all of the cool things happening within our community. It makes what we do easily accessible to users on the outside. Some times those listeners may want to become contributors, but most of the time we just get to be nerds about our favorite Linux distro.
However, making a podcast is work. Production comes in three phases - preparation, hosting, and distribution. To prepare for a podcast episode we have to decide on topics, find guests, schedule them, prepare show notes, and do research along the way. To host, we obviously need friendly faces to curiously engage with our guests and facilitate a conversation, but they also have to be trusted spokespeople of the Fedora brand and community values. Pushing the podcast out to the world comes with its own steps of managing the YouTube VOD post stream, doing some minor editing, and then making it available wherever you get your podcasts.
Who is behind this effort? @itguyeric is doing the back-breaking work of carrying this project in all three areas, while I mostly help with prep work and sometimes co-host. But it’s tough. If you were following the podcast and noticed the hiatus, it’s because the podcast is not something we can always keep up at the same cadence.
If you are interested in helping with the podcast in any of these capacities, please reach out in our Fedora Podcast Matrix room. Let us know which area(s) you are interested in helping with or learning about and we can go from there. Even if you don’t have a ton of experience in these areas, reach out!