Podcast Organization

So the proposal to do a joint podcast with Quasar sort of tapered out a little, mostly due to a lack of free time for most members. While it's not likely everyone's free time is going to coincide anytime soon, planning for it may help find times when most major members are able to participate at some point in the future. There's also still the question of actually contacting Quasar again and finding out when he's available, which should hopefully help decide on a better time frame.

Also, the idea of shorter podcasts with fewer presenters which would be easier to organise has been proposed here. In essence, they would just be a short summary of current development progress (just to remind the fans that we're not dead) from whoever is available at the end of each interval - monthly sounds fairly easy to maintain, with a few days afterwards to quickly edit everything and upload it to the YouTube channel.

I agree with podcasts being shorter. The rate they are produced should be kept in check with how much progress we have and how much free time we have to make them, but I think three 10-minute podcasts in one month is better than 1 half hour podcast.

Regarding Quasar, what sort of format are we thinking of for our discussion with him?

This is what Quasar said on the previous page regarding the podcast's format:

Quasar wrote:

If we do go verbal, a semi-scripted format would probably suit me well: if I knew what questions/subjects we were going to deal with, it'd give me a chance to compile my thoughts before responding.

Also, a more regular podcast may create more incentive for progress over a short amount of time - if what's been done over a month is going to be listed at the end of it, people are going to be more likely to contribute in the hope of raising that amount and consequently our profile. As for the duration, even 10 minutes is probably too long. If no better organisation alternative can be found (i.e. a lot of people aren't able to be around for its recording), it would be difficult for three or four people to keep talking (without going into detailed descriptions of anything, as we have done for the previous podcasts) for that long.