LibriVox Community Podcast Planning
Posted: December 9th, 2011, 12:15 am
LibriVox Community Podcast Planning
This thread's purpose is to inform, inspire, and organize all members of the LibriVox Podcast Production Team - hosts and contributors. ALL LIBRIVOX VOLUNTEERS ARE WELCOME AND URGED TO BECOME A PART OF PODCAST PRODUCTION. If you are interested in keeping the podcasts as a regular part of the LibriVox universe, please subscribe to this thread, visit to check out updates in podcast programming, and contribute your voice on a regular basis, both literally by recording audio files of any aspect of the LV experience to use in the podcasts, and figuratively by voicing your ideas and opinions about initiatives to improve the quality and quantity of podcasts.
What it is
The LibriVox Community Podcast is an audio file produced somewhat regularly presenting the “news, views and vocalizings” (as Jim Mowatt put it) of the LibriVox international community of audiobook producers.
Who it’s for
The International Community of LibriVox Community Audiobook Producers and their listeners.
Why it’s here
To keep members of the community in touch with one another, keep them motivated and inspired to continue with the project’s mission: to liberate all public domain texts in audio form.
When it can be used
All podcasts can be accessed 24/7 and are best used when you need a boost of fun, energy, motivation, and inspiration or just to keep in touch with the community through the very means we use to liberate books: the spoken word. Just check the links on the top of the page here.
How it works
Any member of the community who has contributed segments to the LibriVox catalog can host a podcast. It's probably a good idea to begin by listening to the most current and many of the archived podcasts and contributing audio segments to the current podcasts. This will get you warmed up and familiar with how the podcasts have been done before. When you feel you are ready, you can sign up on the podcast wiki page http://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Librivox_Community_Podcast to host a podcast. In order to log in so that you can sign up to host, you will need to acquire a wiki password in order to get a wiki account. To request a user account, PM Jc or PM RuthieG. You will be given a username (same as your forum name) and a temporary password. Please include your email address in your PM.
Personally, I think it is better to have shorter shows come out more frequently than having long shows come out less frequently. Of course, since we are all doing this in our spare time and since it even takes time away from doing other LV projects, it is understandable when there are dry spells in podcast production. But if we form a cooperative group so that no one person has the full burden of creating the show, I think we could get shows out sometimes as often as weekly but no less frequently than monthly, with twice monthly being a nice compromise and every three weeks also being OK. Of course, special shows like anniversaries and special events should be as long as the material that is submitted. Actually, so far, I have used or will be using almost every second of what has been submitted to me, only trimming a few seconds here and there.
Below is an informal list of upcoming shows. The "official: list is in the wiki here http://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Librivox_Community_Podcast but this is a preliminary schedule before fully committing to the wiki sign-up list. Please suggest any ideas you have for podcast show themes in a post in this thread.
Podcast Show themes in the works:
# Date Theme
[out of date list removed]
This thread's purpose is to inform, inspire, and organize all members of the LibriVox Podcast Production Team - hosts and contributors. ALL LIBRIVOX VOLUNTEERS ARE WELCOME AND URGED TO BECOME A PART OF PODCAST PRODUCTION. If you are interested in keeping the podcasts as a regular part of the LibriVox universe, please subscribe to this thread, visit to check out updates in podcast programming, and contribute your voice on a regular basis, both literally by recording audio files of any aspect of the LV experience to use in the podcasts, and figuratively by voicing your ideas and opinions about initiatives to improve the quality and quantity of podcasts.
What it is
The LibriVox Community Podcast is an audio file produced somewhat regularly presenting the “news, views and vocalizings” (as Jim Mowatt put it) of the LibriVox international community of audiobook producers.
Who it’s for
The International Community of LibriVox Community Audiobook Producers and their listeners.
Why it’s here
To keep members of the community in touch with one another, keep them motivated and inspired to continue with the project’s mission: to liberate all public domain texts in audio form.
When it can be used
All podcasts can be accessed 24/7 and are best used when you need a boost of fun, energy, motivation, and inspiration or just to keep in touch with the community through the very means we use to liberate books: the spoken word. Just check the links on the top of the page here.
How it works
Any member of the community who has contributed segments to the LibriVox catalog can host a podcast. It's probably a good idea to begin by listening to the most current and many of the archived podcasts and contributing audio segments to the current podcasts. This will get you warmed up and familiar with how the podcasts have been done before. When you feel you are ready, you can sign up on the podcast wiki page http://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Librivox_Community_Podcast to host a podcast. In order to log in so that you can sign up to host, you will need to acquire a wiki password in order to get a wiki account. To request a user account, PM Jc or PM RuthieG. You will be given a username (same as your forum name) and a temporary password. Please include your email address in your PM.
Personally, I think it is better to have shorter shows come out more frequently than having long shows come out less frequently. Of course, since we are all doing this in our spare time and since it even takes time away from doing other LV projects, it is understandable when there are dry spells in podcast production. But if we form a cooperative group so that no one person has the full burden of creating the show, I think we could get shows out sometimes as often as weekly but no less frequently than monthly, with twice monthly being a nice compromise and every three weeks also being OK. Of course, special shows like anniversaries and special events should be as long as the material that is submitted. Actually, so far, I have used or will be using almost every second of what has been submitted to me, only trimming a few seconds here and there.
Below is an informal list of upcoming shows. The "official: list is in the wiki here http://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Librivox_Community_Podcast but this is a preliminary schedule before fully committing to the wiki sign-up list. Please suggest any ideas you have for podcast show themes in a post in this thread.
Podcast Show themes in the works:
# Date Theme
[out of date list removed]