[Speakers] Re: [KLUG Members] CMS again / podcast?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> 4th generation iPods with color screens, and the new iPod nano will  
> display the pictures during playback. Since the other iPods have  
> simple monochrome screens, they didn't bother adding that  
> functionality. That said, a very good portion of the iPods out there  
> are 4th generation iPods (I wouldn't say half, but still a good 
> amount).

Would it be possible to also produce something like this in MPEG for us 
non-iPod
people.  My Treo can play most media formats, but I doubt anything specific to
Apple's hardware.

> As you guys may know, putting together a podcast would introduce the  
> possibility of huge bandwidth costs to KLUG (or whomever is hosting  
> KLUG).

Not a concern.  We have a large pipe at the chamber, we would just host such a
server there.

> If it takes off, or gets featured somewhere (which could be  likely, 
> as we are one of the most active LUGs in the region, if not  THE most 
> active).

I think Apache can protect us from this - mod_throttle

> Another thing that would be worth looking at is  whether or not to 
> submit the podcast to various directories like  indiepodder.org 
> (formerly ipodder.org), and iTunes. For iTunes, there  are some 
> specific things necessary for making the feed work with the  iTunes 
> Music Store podcast directory.

I'd prefer to keep it a KLUG thing,  if people come and find it great!  
Or maybe
even be nefarious and make people cough up information and take a survey in
order to get access to the content.

> As for equipment, the only thing you'd need is a Linux box capable of 
>  recording AIFF audio or recording directly to MP3, with a decent  
> sound card. you'd probably want a mixer with a couple inputs (one for 
>  the speaker's mic, one for the audience mic). For microphones, you'd 
>  want a good condenser mic. For the speaker, another thing that would 
>  work is one of the gaming microphones, as they are generally pretty  
> good at noise-canceling, and have pretty good audio quality (these  
> are around $50-$70 or so).