# Fedora Podcast at NEST talk ## Intro Hi I am Grayson, I'm a Fedora Contributor, part of the Sysadmin team, a cohost the and producer of the Fedora podcast ## Fedora Podcast quick facts If you just want to know what the Fedora Podcast is, this is the section for you The Fedora Podcast - is a 25-45 minutes podcast - is released in seasons each season consisting of 10 episodes - comes out on every other Tuesday, at 6 AM EDT - Contains interviews with people around the Fedora community, and news about Fedora - Is targeted at anyone who wants to learn about what's going on in Fedora - should be availible anywhere you listen to podcasts - is at podcast.fedoraproject.org - is produced, and co hosted by I - and co hosted by Eduard - However, we are open to have new hosts all the time. ## Timeline ### Where did the Fedora Podcast come from The Fedora Podcast officially began in February of 2018, a project by the Fedora Marketing team, spearheaded by Eduard. After a hiatus, I joined the team, and I started a new effort to refresh the podcast, taking the core values of the show, and rebuilding certian parts. ### Fedora Podcast reboot Of course, while I lead the effort, there were numerous people who helped immensly. Eduard did a ton of the work, but we also had help from Tricknology, who wrote amazing, original theme music for the show. Ryan Gorley completely redesigned the website, and all the Fedora Podcast artwork . Everything he made for us making looks extremely proffesional freehive.com . Michael Tunnell, co-founder of the Destination Linux Network, and one of the biggest names in Linux Podcasting, provided a ton of advice, and even made us a show on his network. #### DLN! Let's get more into that. One of the biggest changes in the new Fedora Podcast, is our partnership with DLN, the Destination Linux Network. For this part, I'm going to hand the virtual Microphone to Michael, to explain DLN, and how we are working with them. ##### Michael explains what DLN is, why they partenered with DLN, and how it help both of us Hi, I'm Michael Tunnell. I am a podcaster, youtuber, open sourcerer and co-founder of the Destination Linux Network. The focus for the Destination Linux Network is to spread a new era of open source and Linux through education, entertainment, universal access, and inspiration. DLN delivers high quality family friendly content across all forms of media. Part of our mission is to be community focused, so when we learned that the Fedora Podcast was being revived we were excited to participate however we could. Grayson took the advice I offered and quickly exceeded expectations, he put a lot of work into the Fedora Podcast. We were impressed by his hustle that we knew we wanted to be involved more. This led to a partnership between Fedora Project and DLN which I think has been great for everyone. ##### Grayson with how DLN has supported the Fedora Podcast DLN has been immensly helpful with advice, and support in the process of refreshing the podcast. It's always helpful to have someone with tons of experience on your team, and that was DLN for us. They helped us avoid issues we could have had, and showed us things that are hard to understand when you're new in this. ALso by joining up with DLN it's safe to say we got some benefit from DLN's marketing. By being part of the DLN Community we were able to get a huge listener boost quickly. I've personally talked to folks who got to know more about Fedora, through learning and then listening to us through DLN. #### Release schedule One of the changes with the refresh was the release schedule Like was mentioned at the begining, the Fedora Podcast has a specific release schedule. From here onwards, we are using a seasoned aproach The first ten episodes, can be considered Season 1. After that, is Season two, which is what we are in now. Currently, we are 6 episodes in to Season 2. Each season, including one, will have ten episodes. In Season 2, but possibly also in the future, we are releasing episodes on every other Tuesday, at 6 AM EDT. I am very hopeful that there will be a season 3, and that I will have a hand in it, but that depend on my free time, and how many other people are availible to help. The benefiet of the Season structure, is that we can stockpile episodes, topics, interviews, and ideas over the course of the off season time. Those free weekends and afternoons of work, can be pushed out in an orderly fashion. From my point of view, it's likely that over the school year, we slowly gather episodes, then during the summer, we can really work on it, and start a new Season. However, there's a chance stuff could be coming sooner than that, so stay tuned. I'd also love to release different styles of episodes while we are between seasons. Perhaps an extra long episode, an episode playing with a new format, or a breaking news episode. We'll have to see what happens. #### What have we been doing/talking about in Season two quickly cover season 2 In Season two, we've been running with a theme of Fedora 34, talking about Fedora 34 things. For instance, BTRFS, Pipewire, and Kinoite. If you want to listen to those episodes, you can find them at podcast.fp.o we're also going to be bringing in gnome 40, and other topics soon #### How well we've been doing The reception of the Fedora Podcast has been amazing! Just in the past couple months, we hit 10,000 total downloads since the relaunch! That was awesome, and today we can expect at least 500 downloads on day 1 of realeasing an episode. We can assume that most of our Day one downloads are subscribers, even though we can't directly measure subs. I think that is an amazing amount of downloads so a podcast that is in a niche community, that has only released 16 episodes ever. Another thing, we are currently sitting at 14.5K downloads, despite what they said in trivia ## Why(I think(hope)) the Fedora Podcast is important I've personally always thought podcast were a really cool medium. They can be long, or short. You can listen while doing many other things. They can be simple, like the Fedora Podcast, or they can be complicated, like a radio show. They can be done live, or listened to, years afterwords. Anyone with a microphone can make a podcast, or you can build an entire team of people who have a career in podcasting to make one show. I don't think Fedora Podcast could ever replace something like the Fedora Magazine, but I hope it can find a comfortable spot along side things like the Community blog, Magazine, and conferences like this one to help folks learn about Fedora, and what we're doing. Another thing is, we can keep up with everyone else! During Covid, podcasts have really blown up. Everyone and their brother runs a podcast, and listens to them. Now is a great time to have a podcast, possibly the best time yet. Also, Ubuntu has the Ubuntu Podcast so we obviously should make a better one :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: ## Contributing Right now, the Fedora Podcast is mainly done by me, host and producer, and Eduard, who is a co host. We, of course, want more contributors! There are a few of places where we could use help. 1. Speaking - If you have things to talk about, here is a place to talk about them. For instance, if you are a packager, and you want to talk about your package, we want to hear from you. 2. correspondents - We want people who can act kind of like correspondents. Either by researching topics and explaining on the show, or by going out and interview folks. 3. Audio Engineering - if you have experience engineering audio, you could help us by working on the show in that way. 4. Spreading the word - Just telling people about the Fedora Podcast is super helpful. The podcast is pointless without listeners, and without people talking about it, we won't get more listeners! 5. and more! - There's probably ways we could use help, that we don't know about. Please feel free to reach out with however you think you can contribute. If this sounds interesting to you, please get in touch! There are plenty of places to do so Our matrix room, #fedora-podcast:matrix.org Our IRC room, #fedora-podcast on libera.chat Email, podcast@fedoraproject.org and finally, opening and helping with issues at pagure.io/fedora-podcast/issues Each interview goes into a ticket here, and every idea. You can go through these, recommend interviewees, ask how you can help, or file new issues. Everyone who contributes gets a shout out on the show, and a Fedora badge.