Librivox Community Podcast

LibriVox Community Podcast #130

Posted on August 2, 2012 by | Posted in Blog, For Volunteers, Librivox Community Podcast, News, Podcast | Comments: Comments Off on LibriVox Community Podcast #130

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #130 hosted by Bob Gonzalez (bobgon55).

[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community_2012/librivox_community_podcast_130.mp3]

Duration: 46m 56s

LibriVox: The Pioneer Days – Part Five of a Five-part Series.

Featuring Anita (ardobbs), Denny Sayers, Brad Bush, & Hugh McGuire

00:00 – Intro
01:01 – Anita on the then new LibriVox Uploader from podcast #51 August 30, 2007
04:09 – Denny Sayers reminisces the early days
07:35 – Brad Bush on the genesis of the LibriVox Theme Music
14:03 – Intro to a conversation with Hugh McGuire
16:08 – Influences for LibriVox
19:19 – The Vision for LibriVox & its development
21:55 – Anarchy with an Iron Fist
22:33 – Shared Values
23:08 – Being Civil on the Forums
23:45 – Clear Set of Principles
24:15 – Be Nice & No Unsolicited Criticism
26:15 – First Three months like Three Years
27:29 – Organic Growth in the Early Days
30:11 – Impetus to Start LibriVox
32:34 – Letting others choose books
34:58 – Podcasting chapter by chapter
35:14 – Where were LibriVox audiobooks stored before the Internet Archive?
36:13 – Solo projects
37:55 – International Appeal
38:57 – Gain/loss – Growing Pains
26:10 – Very Clear Statement of Purpose
42:16 – Community feeling/Advanced Technology
44:05 – Model for other ventures
45:25 – Outro

Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy

We are interested in whatever feedback – positive or constructively critical – anyone has about this fifth and final podcast of this series. Be on the lookout for podcast #131, the LibriVox 7th anniversary celebration podcast, due for release on August 10. Add a comment below or pop over to this forum thread.

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Recent past LibriVox Community Podcast files can be found at our spot on: Archive.org and archived shows for previous years can be found at: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

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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LibriVox Community Podcast #129

Posted on July 15, 2012 by | Posted in For Volunteers, Librivox Community Podcast, News, Podcast | Comments: Comments Off on LibriVox Community Podcast #129

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #129 hosted by Bob Gonzalez (bobgon55).

[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community_2012/librivox_community_podcast_129.mp3]

Duration: 26m 54s

LibriVox: The Pioneer Days – Part Four of a Five-part Series.

Featuring part two of a conversation with Gesine.

[Warning: Some minimal uneven audio in some places due to connection instability at times.]

00:00 Intro
01:04 Mystery Special Projects
03:38 Genre Groups & MCs
04:44 Before the Magic Window & New Projects Launch Pad
06:04 LibriVox: Unique Forum & Community
09:24 Criticism
10:45 Cultural Differences
13:15 Gain and/Loss
14:44 Choosing Admins
16:25 Burnout
17:37 Editing
20:58 Esoteric Projects
21:55 LibriVox for readers more than listeners
22:54 Wacky Projects Revisted
24:02 Life Changing Experience? Running Iambik
25:00 Outro

We are interested in whatever feedback – positive or constructively critical – anyone has about this fourth podcast of the series. You may also contribute statistics, comments, and promos to be added to the next and final one, featuring a conversation with Librivox founder Hugh McGuire. Add a comment below or pop over to this forum thread.

Phil Williams, Voyager Recordings & Publications
Vivian & Phil Williams: Our Programs of Traditional Northwest Fiddling from Pioneer Days to The Present
http://www.voyagerrecords.com/

An email message from Phil Williams of Voyager Records:
Feel free to use any of the recordings in the Northwest Fiddle Field Recordings section. We claim no copyright on them. The concept here is to make available to the public some of the fiddling of the Pacific Northwest, and fiddlers that have come here. If you want to use any material from these, or other CDs we have out, for your projects, just let me know.

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To Subscribe to the Librivox Community Podcast, go to:
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Or hit this itunes link to get you to the subscribe page:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=203970211

Recent past LibriVox Community Podcast files can be found at our spot on: Archive.org and archived shows for previous years can be found at: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

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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LibriVox Community Podcast #128

Posted on July 1, 2012 by | Posted in For Volunteers, Librivox Community Podcast, News, Podcast | Comments: Comments Off on LibriVox Community Podcast #128

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #128 hosted by Bob Gonzalez (bobgon55).

[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community_2012/librivox_community_podcast_128.mp3]

Duration: 23m 20s

LibriVox: The Pioneer Days – Part Three of a Five-part Series.

Featuring a conversation with Gesine.

00:00 – Intro
01:39 – Joining LibriVox
02:40 – What is it about you that made LibriVox so appealing
03:36 – What did you do at first?
07:12 – Making it up as went along? Involved? How?
1st with 10,000 posts
09:15 – Spearheading? Instructionals. MCing
10:01 – Controversies, growing pains?
Erotica – flagging – LV seen as a library
A lot of people “get it” & enter discussion
11:20 – Quality Naturally Improving
Talented people inspire one another now
Editing magic
13:50 – Podcasts, how added; Community, friends; Another dimension
15:31 – What did it FEEL like to be in the project in the day?
“Pioneers!”
Reading, recording things I never would have touched otherwise
18:14 – Wacky projects?
Weekly Poetry, Ulysses
NanaWriMo project; Community Exercise, like podcasts
21:24 – Outro – More on the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) projects

Gesine’s Mystery Podcast – LibriVox Community Podcast #63
Nov 22, 2007

National Novel Writing Month site: http://www.nanowrimo.org/

LibriVox NaNoWriMo Novel 2006: The Mystery
Forum Thread: viewtopic.php?t=3892

LibriVox NaNoWriMo Novel 2007: The Yellow Sheet
Forum Thread: viewtopic.php?t=10442

We are interested in whatever feedback – positive or constructively critical – anyone has about this third podcast of the series. You may also contribute statistics, comments, and promos to be added to the next two, which have the featured interviews already set. Add a comment below or pop over to this forum thread.

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To Subscribe to the Librivox Community Podcast, go to:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/LibrivoxCommunityPodcast

Or hit this itunes link to get you to the subscribe page:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=203970211

Recent past LibriVox Community Podcast files can be found at our spot on: Archive.org and archived shows for previous years can be found at: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

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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LibriVox Community Podcast #127

Posted on June 15, 2012 by | Posted in For Volunteers, Librivox Community Podcast, News, Podcast | Comments: 1 Comment on LibriVox Community Podcast #127

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #127 hosted by Bob Gonzalez (bobgon55).

[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community_2012/librivox_community_podcast_127.mp3]

Duration: 32m 1s

LibriVox: The Pioneer Days – Part Two of a Four-part Series.

Featuring a conversation with Sean McGaughey (ductapeguy).

1:42 – Joining LibriVox & Uploaders
2:33 – Proof listening
4:07 – Anti-Wild West
4:58 – Criticism
7:05 – Boing boing Announcement
8:36 – Growing Pains – Quirky Projects
10:37 – LibriVox Community Podcast
13:00 – Public domain
14:27 – Listening – Readers First
16:04 – LV Ontario Group Gathering
17:07 – Out of the ordinary project – Who Was Who?
19:01 – Thou shalts
19:54 – Core Contribution of LibriVox to World Knowledge
21:16 – The Secret Sauce
22:23 – The 100th chapter
23:44 – The mission – vision – vision statement
25:28 – Forum moderation
26:13 – Burnout & “podfade” at Podcamp Toronto
30:15 – Admin Tasks
31:09 – Outro

Link for LibriVox Book Podcast http://librivox.org/podcast.xml

We are interested in whatever feedback – positive or constructively critical – anyone has about this series of podcasts. You may also contribute statistics, comments, and promos to be added to the next two, which have the featured interviews already set. Add a comment below or pop over to this forum thread.

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To Subscribe to the Librivox Community Podcast, go to:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/LibrivoxCommunityPodcast

Or hit this itunes link to get you to the subscribe page:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=203970211

Recent past LibriVox Community Podcast files can be found at our spot on: Archive.org and archived shows for previous years can be found at: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

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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