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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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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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Pulp (Non-) Fiction

Posted on June 30, 2012 by | Posted in about LibriVox, Blog, For Volunteers, Monthly Picks, News | Comments: 1 Comment on Pulp (Non-) Fiction

July has arrived – just the perfect time for some light reading. Get your fix on “adventures for the masses” with 10 gems from our catalog.

Andrew Lanning is walking the Way of the Lawless, closely followed by the law in the form of Hal Dozier. But did Andrew really commit the crimes he is accused of? Hopefully, justice will prevail in the classic western by Max Brand.

A different kind of outlaw is portrayed by Johnston McCulley. The Curse of Capistrano is the first story of Zorro, fighting for justice, against Sgt. Gonzales, and for his love Lolita, of course.

In the story by H. Beam Piper, Pappy Jack also fights the establishment – in the form of his employer. They are willing to resort to dirty tricks so that Little Fuzzy is not declared sapient – and they can keep exploiting his planet.

The Simple Sabotage Field Manual is full of strategies to bring down an enemy force. All tactics are approved – and probably tested – by the US Office of Strategic Services. Just be smart enough not to be caught!

Extremely clever are The Inventions of the Idiot. The Idiot presents his thoughts about improving the civilized man. Our dramatic reading of John Kendrick Bangs’ novel wil help you decide if they are worth anything.

Certainly worth reading are the recollections of Mark Twain. While publication was planned after his demise, he decided to publish some Chapters from My Autobiography before already, probably because they could have done no more harm anyway.

No more harm will come to La Goualeuse after she has been saved by the mysterious Rodolphe. But who is this guardian angel, and what are his ultimate goals? Read The Mysteries of Paris, one of the most successful French serials, by Eugène Sue. This book is also available in French.

The goal of the National Geographic Magazine is clear: to increase and diffuse geographic knowledge. This is its very first issue from 1889, and almost 125 years later, it is still going strong…

The city of Xuchotl is not to be found on any map. Between death and despair Conan the Cimmerian and the pirate Valeria have to fight for their lives. Red Nails is the final story of Conan by Robert E. Howard – and often considered the best.

A London Plane Tree and Other Verse was the final book of poetry by Amy Levy, whose very first poem was published in a magazine when she was only fourteen.

Enjoy – and good luck with your adventures!

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LibriVox Mellon Grant Project Gets Underway!

Posted on June 25, 2012 by | Posted in about LibriVox, News | Comments: 4 Comments on LibriVox Mellon Grant Project Gets Underway!

We are excited to announce that work has begun behind the scenes to rebuild the LibriVox technical infrastructure and implement a new site design and catalog improvements. Thanks to the Mellon Foundation for providing the grant, and to the Internet Archive for administering the project.

A Project Manager and a Developer!

We are thrilled to have a couple of new faces, hired to move this project along: experienced technical project manager, Valerie Bock, and software developer, Jeff Madsen. Jeff and Valerie will work with a team of LV volunteers over the next few months making major improvements to the creaking LibriVox infrastructure, cataloging software, website and user interface.

Please join us in welcoming Val and Jeff to LibriVox! If you see Jeff (jmadsen) or Val (vbock) on the forums, say hi!

From August 2005 to Today

From our humble beginnings in August 2005 (30 audiobooks were completed that year) to today with 5664 completed projects in 32 different languages in our catalog, we are currently well on our way to reaching 6000 cataloged projects by the end of 2012!

Thanks to Everyone Who Has Got Us This Far

We have many people to thank for taking LibriVox from an idea of LibriVox founder, Hugh McGuire, to the largest online publisher of free audiobooks in the last 7 years. These include the core group of volunteers who have built and maintained the existing technical infrastructure, the admins who do all the cataloging, the book coordinators and proof listeners who help produce the books, the Internet Archive for hosting our books, and of course, the over 5000 readers who have donated their recordings to the public domain so that everyone can enjoy them for free.

Looking to the Future

It’s all worked amazingly well, and it’s a lot of fun, but we are looking forward to this much needed overhaul of our systems to ensure that LibriVox will be able to continue to grow so that our volunteers can produce more free audiobooks. Stay tuned for more news and updates as the project progresses.

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