This morning I had the opportunity to play co-host on the FLOSS Weekly show with Randal Schwartz. We had a really nice discussion with two of the Haiku project team members and despite a couple fairly minor hiccups (I rather forgot FLOSS Weekly includes a video component!) it was really a enjoyable experience. We talked about the recent alpha release of Haiku, what their goals are, the design concepts of Haiku and even touched a bit on the availability of Qt as well as Webkit on their operating system.
The show will be up on the FLOSS Weekly site tomorrow morning at 09:30 PST, which is sometime in the mid-afternoon in Europe, so be sure to check it out then!
It also looks like I'll be a semi-regular co-host on the show going forward. I'm looking forward to the next episode that I'll be joining, and will post a heads up in my blog here when that happens so those who wish to watch the pre-production recording live and a day early can do so.
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7 comments:
Nice. Go Aaron.
I hope you and other co-hosts will be able to inject some discussion on any Linux/F/OSS news and current issues out there to compliment the interviews. I think this is something missing as compared to many other TWIT shows.
Rock on Aaron!
will listen to it when it comes out.
i used to listen to the show but i stopped because the show doesnt seem to talk about the week's "word on the street"
Not everybody is interested with perl or smalltalk or some arcane programming framework.
There are a lot of events that happen weekly that can be looked at from the FOSS perspective and not from apple's in mac break weekly show or from microsofts in windows windows weekly.
The apparent disregard to FOSS perspective in its own show affecting the show, IMHO ..
@dohbuoy: I believe the "news" space is very strongly covered by Linux Outlaws, which I listen to regularly and highly recommend.
Producing FLOSS Weekly is already a four-hour-per-week unpaid job, and if I also had to research all the news, distros, and current issues, it'd be impossible for me to do timewise. Instead, I'll let Dan and Fab cover that for me, while I can concentrate on getting the best interviews out there from industry leaders and below-the-radar projects.
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It doesnt have to be all news of the week or distros released that week. There are important stories that can atleast get some air time.
There are stories that get massive airtime and have major FOSS implications and it seem odd this podcast just doesnt seem to be interested in them.
There was a great discussion on the web about h.264 couple of days ago for example. This codec has its advantages and disadvantes.Leo is an apple fanboy but he is reasonable and knows how to cater to his audience. He already expressed his unesyness with its patents and license but he doesnt have an audience in mac break weekly or windows weekly so he doesnt talk about it there and listeners of his show go uneducated, FOSS weekly was a perfect show to discuss all the shortcomming of this codec and why theora is a better candidate(patent wise).
@mhogomchungu: I think it is really hard to do a combined news and an interview show without compromising one aspect or the other. I think that FOSS Weekly does a great job of providing an interview based show, a sort of "Larry King Live" minus the suspenders and what not for FOSS.
I am with you on wanting a really good FOSS _news_ show. We have various opinion shows that come and go, some of which are more entertaining than others (or just more entertaining than informative), but not much in the way of accurate news coverage that we could tune into weekly.
Both kinds of shows, interview and news, are significant undertakings, and I'm just glad we have guys like Randal around to tackle at least one of them and do a great job of it in the process. :)
Nice job Aaron. Looking forward to having you on the show.
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