Librivox Community Podcast

LibriVox Community Podcast #116

Posted on August 9, 2011 by | Posted in about LibriVox, Librivox Community Podcast, News | Comments: Comments Off on LibriVox Community Podcast #116

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #116 hosted by Ruth Golding (RuthieG).

[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community_2011/librivox_community_podcast_116.mp3]

Duration: 44m 21s.

  • Tributes to:

    The late Chris Booth (icyjumbo) including an extract from his reading of William Wilberforce’s 1789 speech On Slavery.
    The late Alan Davis Drake (Cloud Mountain) including his reading of Jazz Fantasia by Carl Sandburg.

  • Contributions from:

    Andy Minter (ExEmGe) on ‘Where to listen to LibriVox audiobooks’
    Hugh McGuire (hugh) taking a measured look at the future of LibriVox
    David Lawrence (aradlaw) and the readers of Karawane by Hugo Ball
    Don W. Jenkins (maxfarce) and Dawn Larsen (Bead Krazy Dawn) reading some of their conversations as reader and proof-listener during recording of The Exploits of Juve, introduced by Nadine Eckert-Boulet (neckertb)
    Bob Gonzalez (bobgon55) on the thoughts and feelings of an enthusiastic new volunteer
    Anniversary greetings from JemmaBlythe, Psudonae_Vox and Steve (slmitchell)
    Lars Rolander (Rowland) on the cultural value of LibriVox
    The first LibriVox book … and GabrielleC reading a poem in the 6th Anniversary Collection.

  • Musical silliness (as expected) from:

    RuthieG – disgraceful parodies of
    My old dutch (1893) words by Albert Chevalier (1861–1923), music by Charles Ingle (Auguste Chevalier) (1863-1940)
    Waiting at the church (1906) words by Fred W. Leigh, music by Henry E. Pether (1868-1932)
    Daisy Bell (1892) written and composed by Harry Dacre (1860-1922)
    I do like to be beside the seaside (1907) written by John A. Glover-Kind (1882-1918) with a special guest appearance by Nadine. :)

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LibriVox Community Podcast #115

Posted on October 13, 2010 by | Posted in For Volunteers, Librivox Community Podcast, Podcast | Comments: Comments Off on LibriVox Community Podcast #115

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #115 hosted by Lars Rolander.

[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community_2010/librivox_community_podcast_115.mp3]

Duration: 17min 42s.

Have you ever considered joining LibriVox and become a real “Librivoxer”? If so, what do you need if you want to become a reader? What else can you do, and how do you go about it?

In this podcast, Lars Rolander gives some of his personal thoughts and tips.

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LibriVox Community Podcast #114

Posted on August 10, 2010 by | Posted in For Volunteers, Librivox Community Podcast, News | Comments: 1 Comment on LibriVox Community Podcast #114

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #114 hosted by Lucy Perry.

[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community_2010/librivox_community_podcast_114.mp3]

Duration: 1hr 47min

With contributions from hugh, kayray, Algy Pug, Availle, RuthieG, Rowland, ExEmGe, HokusPokus, neerajanagarajan, neckertb, Nicholas19, gloriana, Cori, tis, Gesine, annise, Jonathan Awesome, KathrynD, rf, Great Plains, Starlite, aradlaw, TriciaG, russiandoll, wdcallahan and Claire — along with a host of other LibriVox Voices. Sound effects mostly from pdsounds.org

Join us as we celebrate the fifth anniversary of the creation of LibriVox. Listen as our readers tell us about the parts of LibriVox that they love. And enjoy a lazy afternoon pondering the future of LibriVox.

Running order:
An interview with kayray (4:40)
Algy Pug gives a new reader’s view of LibriVox (14:13)
Some LibriVox statistics collected by Availle (17:22)
RuthieG and the Fifth Anniversary Collections (25:06)
Rowland on LibriVox Addiction (27:40)
ExEmGe on how LibriVox has changed his life (31:57)
LibriVox is Five Years Old, a poem by Lucy_k_p (35:32)
The Languages of LibriVox (37:14)
HokusPokus, neerajanagarajan and neckertb discuss the latest German, Tamil and French works (41:10)
The Language Learning Initiative by Nicolas19 (54:18)
gloriana talks about what’s new in the Dramatic Works Forum (56:47)
Cori reflects on Podcasts (1:04:02)
An interview with hugh (1:05:09)
tis gives us a look behind the scenes at the technical side of LibriVox (1:18:53)
Gesine tell us how to Thank a Reader (1:23:23)
annise and Jonathan Awesome discuss the making of M4B files (1:28:15)
How I create CD Covers by KathrynD (1:32:30)
rf on plain vanilla CD case inserts (1:35:23)
Some advice to new volunteers from Great Plains (1:39:18)
The LibriVox Fundraiser (1:40:31)
Happy Anniversary LibriVox, from all our readers (1:43:05)

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LibriVox Community Podcast #113

Posted on August 4, 2010 by | Posted in about LibriVox, For Volunteers, Librivox Community Podcast, News | Comments: Comments Off on LibriVox Community Podcast #113

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #113 with Gesine.

[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community_2010/librivox_community_podcast_113.mp3]

Duration: 25:04

In Community Podcast 113, Gesine explains the ins and outs of the new ‘Thank a reader’ feature on the LibriVox website. Clicking on the link in the right-hand sidebar, listeners can send their thanks to a designated email address, and an admin posts the messages in a forum thread and also notifies each reader by PM. From its conception in April to the date of the podcast, August 2010, we’ve received more than 250 thank you emails (approx. 90 messages per month).

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Recent past and present LibriVox Community Podcast files can be found at our spot on:
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Archived shows for previous years can be found at:
2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Archived shownotes for the Community Podcast can be found at:
http://librivox.org/category/librivox-community-podcast/

And the rss feed for those shownotes is:
http://librivox.org/category/librivox-community-podcast/feed

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