[python-advocacy] Proposal for Monthly podcast series

[Ralph]

On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 13:46 -0500, Michael Tobis wrote:
> YouTube can host bandwidth intensive stuff in a pinch. All we would
> want a centralized facility to do would be to link especially language
> and/or community relevant ones.
> 
  I have no interest in anything that would be hosted on Youtube.  All
their stuff is Flash.  I can't play Flash files.  Sure, the Flash player
is free, but the license in unacceptable.  I would feel bad doing
anything to promote it.  My vision is to produce audio only podcasts.
There will be notes to go with them.  Now, there is someone in Dallas
producing Screencasts, but I don't know if that is public so I won't say
who.  I see these two as being complementary.  I rarely listen to the
radio anymore.  I listen to a variety of podcasts.  I take the audio
from C-SPAN and other video streams and make my own programs.  I think a
lot of people do this these days.
 I hear Gnash is close to being ready to play Youtube videos.  So, maybe
this opinion will change.  But, I also saw that Youtube might convert to
their own proprietary format.  I think it still might be better to stay
away from silos like Youtube.

> There's no need for it to be as rare as monthly if people want to
> contribute. If you can get your stuff prominently featured on
> python.org, preferably on the home page, lots of folks would do it.
> 
  Maybe this could turn out bigger than I thought.   I am part of the
Dallas group and we have been talking about this since Pycon in Dallas
this year.  If other people want to do podcasts, great.  If they want to
do better ones than we will do, that's great too.  But, I want to get
things past talking about and get something into production in the next
few months.  If this really looks like it might turn into a bigger
program, we might wait.  We'll see, but I bet we'll start on our own.
We will greedily accept advice.