So I’ll freely admit, I’m obsessed with Podcasts. I love listening to news – the New York Times Front Page, Wall St. Journal Today, NPR News, APM’s Marketplace, On Point, etc. I particularly like those Podcasts that provide a quick summary of what’s going on, since we don’t all have time to be subject experts on everything in life.
I recently pondered whether it would be useful to have a similar podcast for the Linux Kernel Mailing List. I was actually pretty surprised at the lack of existing podcasts (other than the excellent one from TimeSys), especially considering folks are often travelling and away from email – and then there are many people who are interested but don’t have a reason to follow the list so closely. Since I do already read the list, I decided it wouldn’t be much additional effort to make a quick recording based on what I had read that day. Look upon this as an experiment to gauge interest – and to see if there are enough volunteers to help make this a regular thing.
Today’s episode took 15 minutes to prepare and record, and 1 hour to get staged and setup with the right XML, etc. That’s hopefully 15-20 minutes per day on an ongoing basis, which isn’t much, and might help someone. I would especially like it if there were enough people who were interested in helping out that we could farm this out between a few of us on a weekly basis – but that’s predicated on this being useful. I’ll watch the logs, listen for feedback, and this will last as long as it provides something useful to the wider community.
