I’ve been studying what people think of Fedora and one of the complaints I hear often is that we don’t have a community. Being part of the Fedora community I don’t quite get this, we have forums, mailinglists, IRC channels and generally everyone is pretty approachable.
We also do have a podcast, it’s just missing after only 5 episodes. Now I greatly enjoy listening to podcasts and with Fedora having the in with some of the finest FLOSS hackers I’d think this would be a great outlet to let the world know who we are and what’s being worked on.
So I’m sad to see Fedora Reloaded so underloved, I think it was great even when they accidently lost half of an interview to the data gods. It would be great if we could somehow get a Fedora podcast up and running again. I’d love to give time towards this but I have no experience with podcasting and what’s required in terms of equipment.
ak said,
September 30, 2006 at 03:54
In Itunes’ podcast directory, there’s a number of Ubuntu podcasts. Not one Fedora one. We have a Fedora community but it’s not the size of other Linux communities. Compare the speed of scroll between #fedora and #ubuntu. It’s a real shame as Fedora has some important technical advantages over other popular distros. SELinux, NetworkManager and yum’s multi-arch capability spring to mind.
David Nielsen said,
September 30, 2006 at 04:14
We have a slightly more technically focused community and we don’t really have much in terms of users cheerleading the distribution along. I try to be an advocate but I always feel like there’s more to be done. So I figured I have all the time in the world to do stuff to promote Fedora, I don’t have a lot of coding experience so I could do this. I just need to build the required equipment and find a cohost (Senor Gordon you just raised your hand!), do some experiments and we should really be good to go.
Fedora not only has good technology under the hood but in the Fedora community we have some of the smartest people around, it would be great to do a biweekly show about an hour and a half with a bit of talk about what’s going on, an interview with one of the Fedora community members, eventually answer a bit of mail and such.