What everyone wants

Haha, yes, good thinking!

I listened to the Fedora podcast for the first time. “The road ahead for Fedora” It was nice to hear the voice of what is usually text based interactions. It is much more personal than text in the forums. If you are still looking for a good deodorant I can recommend the ‘open source’ of deodorant - Bicarbonate Soda :slight_smile: A little pinch a day, costs about a dollar year.

The downside to podcasts is that they are not an information dense at text. But that is not always the goal. I note that listeners have gone from 500 in the early days to 2000 - 2500 for recent episodes.

I’d like to hear again from @blc what his thoughts are a week on. It would also be great to hear on these forums from some more Red Hat people.

Best Regards,
MatH

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LOL oh no. I have no memory of talking about deodorant on a podcast!

Yes, we have so many fora, it’s absolutely crippling. When talking about this idea with Jason Brooks late last year it really crystallized for me. It’s really easy to make something so specific that almost everybody misses it. We have so many ways to share it’s hard to pick one.

Many CentOS members are deeply invested in SIGs, where they create alternate versions of packages that layer on top of CentOS Stream, or even replace bits of it. Something of the logical next step after ELN. I don’t think we’ve even scratched the surface on what kind of even-larger community can form around this. But it sure would be nice to have a place to talk to both communities at one time, create cross-pollination, without having to travel to a conference. Something for a different discussion, that.

There’s been some great feedback, from yourself and others- thanks! A few ideas came up in the discussion I’d like to respond to in particular:

  1. Make this into a twice a year in person event or virtual event: I think the criticisms of too many meetings is applicable here as well, but now you’re also burning jet fuel. More than that though, the bigger problem is that when you have so much time between conversations you feel pressure to only share that which is finished and ready for primetime. It becomes a forcing function. But we don’t need more of those. We need to be passing back and forth works in progress, frequently. We do this inside the communities, but we don’t do it with each other. We can’t do it for everything, but we can do it for some things. The greater idea of course can be pursued at any conference where members of each community share and learn.
  2. The door is always open, just knock: That’s been true for 20 years, and in that time more doors have been installed, and more communities have been created and people have less time to knock on each of them. I think if we can agree that there is something special about the technical and social relationship between Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS, that we should also be able to agree that there are activities that we should do to make the most of it. We’re probably not there yet.
  3. How about a podcast instead of a meeting / a dynamic cast of characters each time / pretty much anything but yet another meeting: Sure! Many people, particularly new contributors, are more attuned to getting information via audio and video than they are the written word. Let’s go where the audience is, let’s make it useful to the most people possible. Transcripts, summaries, etc can follow from that. One of the litmus tests is: Can LWN easily learn about it and cite it? If so, we’re probably on the right track.
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It sounds like an extra episode of the Fedora Podcast is the way to go. The question(s) that remain are:

When do we want to plan this episode? Who should join? What should we discuss? :slight_smile:

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