Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Dave Walker, Tony Whitmore with Dave Murphy present the second episode of the Ubuntu UK Podcast.
In this 40 minute episode we talk about:-
- Interviews:
- How low can you go - putting Ubuntu on small or low resource hardware.
- Pronouncing names associated with Linux.
- Would you go back? What would you do if there was no more Ubuntu.
- Feedback from the first show.
Comments and suggestions are welcomed to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org
Up to 30 seconds of voicemail can be left at +44 (0) 845 508 1986.
Download the show here.
This was a much tougher episode to record than the first one. I don’t know whether we all felt under pressure or we were distracted by things going on in the real world, but the recording session really felt like hard work. That and we only had one interview pre-recorded so had more material to cover. When it came to editing, I realised we had recorded some usable stuff after all! 
Hopefully the people who wrote in about the levels will be happier with this episode, although, yes, yes I know I’m too quiet in the final link. We’ll get there.
Today has seen the launch of a new podcast from the Ubuntu UK team.
http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org
In this episode:
- A brief into to the cast, some history of how the podcast was conceived.
- Discussion on Ubuntu’s Brainstorm site.
- Introduction, discussion on why it’s there.
- Talk about some of the top ideas
- FOSDEM 2008 - Interviews with:-
- Andrew Waffa, developer from the Bongo project
- Bongo is the FOSS lightweight webmail and calendar client, Andrew tells Dave and Tony about how this exciting project has been progressing.
- Becky Hogge of the Open Rights Group
- Jan Claeys from the Belgian Ubuntu LoCo Team
- Jan tells us where the Belgian LoCo team started and what they do to promote Ubuntu.
- Pimp the Ubuntu Demo day
The feedback so far has been almost universally appreciative, which is fantastic. That’s the pimping over with, here come the personal comments.
I enjoyed being involved with the production of the first episode particularly as it allowed me to play with audio equipment and editing software, which I really enjoy doing. I hope I don’t get too precious about it in the future, but I like getting it all set up just right and producing a clear recording.
I’m pretty pleased with the end result, although I know it’s not perfect. I need to balance the music level with the speech sections better. I need to ensure we get a higher level recorded in the “studio”. Some edits could have been better, although there’s probably not much more I could do with the stuff recorded on location. There are many in there which aren’t audible at all.
It’s exciting that the whole Ubuntu-UK LoCo can contribute to the show, it will be great to receive content from the wider community. It’ll be interesting to see how much content is forthcoming, but we’ve got lots of ideas for content too.
It’s been great to watch the team, the four presenters featured on this first show and Schwuk, preparing the website, graphics and back-end. Everyone has done their bit and it’s been great to watch everyone play to their strengths. I am more than happy to leave wordpress tweaking to others if I get to play with audio files.
Oh, and don’t forget to listen to it:
http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org
