Thanks for taking an interest!
I agree that eight hours is more of a long-term goal, but I do have my concerns that if we're going for podcasts as an interim, we may get stuck at podcasts and not progress.
Instead, I'd go for doing podcasts in conjunction with getting the technical hurdles overcome. As soon as we're in a position to start streaming, we do. It may just be a random player of Commons music as the 0.01 version of the project, but from there we start scheduling things in from the existing material: The Wikinews news briefs, the Wikiversity lessons/courses in doing audio, Wikipedia podcasts, etc. For things like the podcasts from Wikipedia, it might be an idea to actually only run them on one or two days. So, you schedule them to run three times in the 24 hours that is Sunday, and same for Wednesday. That in itself is - I believe - quite an achievable goal.
That brings us to the key issue in progressing beyond podcasts, the technical side. You mention IceCast, which might suit if we have people sitting down and doing a schedule, so I'm going to hit their #icecast channel on Freenode and point them at the idea. For reasons that should be obvious, I'd want the system running off a text schedule in a wiki.
Brian McNeil -----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Lih Sent: 24 April 2008 09:43 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Cc: Liam Wyatt; Tawker Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wimimedia Radio WAS:RE: Legal position ofaudiorecordings of GFDLcontent?
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Brian McNeil brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org wrote:
Of course, and I meant Wikimania 2009 not '08.
Can someone tell me who would be a good couple of people from the WP podcasts and front page management to talk to?
You can contact me (User:Fuzheado) or User:Tawker.
I think it's an admirable idea, and suggest you start small and grow bigger. No need for 8 hours off the bat, when there are zero hours now. As the longest running regularly published audio product in the Wikipedia universe, believe me when I say it is quite an undertaking.
Likely the best approach would be to have segments broken down into different chunks, not unlike what US NPR does with its twice daily news update, Morning Edition, Day to Day, etc. Each one can be an independent chunk that can be downloaded via RSS like on iTunes as a podcast. Then you stack all the canned audio segments together and have it available from an Icecast streaming server which can stream Ogg format audio for example.
That way you can make three audiences happy simultaneously: 1. Podcast downloaders 2. Streaming audio fans (like Shoutcast) 3. Web-browser based listeners
I'll comment on Wikinews Water Cooler as well.
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