From 130588bad9154fbeb7bf2cd6272275a90031147c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ken Fallon Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 20:50:55 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation update --- templates/content-about.tpl.html | 39 ++++++++++++++------------- templates/content-contribute.tpl.html | 2 +- 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/templates/content-about.tpl.html b/templates/content-about.tpl.html index f50f5b9..22d49a9 100644 --- a/templates/content-about.tpl.html +++ b/templates/content-about.tpl.html @@ -52,8 +52,10 @@ Hacker Public Radio is a technology focused podcast that releases shows every weekday Monday to Friday. We are a welcoming community that offers positive feedback and encourages respectful debate.

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What differentiates HPR from other podcasts is that the shows are crowd sourced from the community - -fellow listeners, hackers, hobbyists, makers, etc. like you. +

+What differentiates HPR from other podcasts is that the shows are crowd sourced from the community - +fellow listeners, hackers, hobbyists, makers - like you.

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There is no restriction on how long the show can be, nor on the topic you can cover as long as they are not spam and "are of interest to ". If you want to see what topics have been covered so far just have a look at our @@ -65,12 +67,10 @@ hosts can go into more detail on a topic.

or you can subscribe to the show in your favorite podcatching client to automatically get our new shows as soon as they are available. You can copy and redistribute the shows for free provided you adhere to the -Creative Commons Attribution - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) License.

+Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) License.

Our History.

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Public Radio (HPR) is an Internet Radio show (podcast) that releases shows every weekday Monday through Friday. -HPR has a long lineage going back to Radio FreeK America, +

Public Radio (HPR) is an Internet Radio show (podcast) that has a long lineage going back to Radio FreeK America, Binary Revolution Radio & Infonomicon, and it is a rename of Today With a Techie radio. @@ -116,7 +116,8 @@ and he has the last word in issues related to site security.

Janitors.

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Janitors are responsible for the day to day operation of HPR, but they have no more say over policy than anyone else. +

Janitors are responsible for the day to day operation of HPR. +They implement the decisions made by the Mail List. This team changes over time and were previously known as the "HPR admins". They act as the first point of contact, processing the shows, coordinating policy discussions, removing spam, updating the website, etc. @@ -145,11 +146,11 @@ Here are the people who have volunteered their time to keep HPR running.

Auditors.

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If the janitors need to contact you related to the implementation of policies, they will also include the Auditors. The Auditors role is to observe, and report if necessary that the Janitors are been faithful in their communication.

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If the janitors need to contact you related to the implementation of policies, they will also include the Auditors. The Auditors role is to observe and report if necessary that the Janitors are been faithful in their communication.

Kill Switch.

HPR will stop as a project if there are not enough Shows. -Once that all the reserve shows have been used up and there are no more shows in the queue, +Once all the reserve shows have been used up and there are no more shows in the queue, HPR as a project will stop. This is by design, and is inspired by the episode hpr0560 :: Old soldiers, hosted by lostnbronx "A discussion of "podfading" - the fading away of once-active podcasts". @@ -197,7 +198,7 @@ You can find out " >HPR Community News show.

Social Media.

@@ -220,7 +221,7 @@ then look no further than our ">the contact channels, or directly on our GitTea repo. We are also looking for people to adopt a podcatcher. -Ideally we will work with you to test changes to improve the user experience on your podcatcher, for the benefit of all.

+We will work with you to test changes to improve the user experience on your podcatcher, for the benefit of all.

Outreach.

@@ -254,25 +255,27 @@ We also appreciate help improving the documentation.

(Re)Creating a HPR page on wikipedia.

Once someone contributes to Public Radio, the Wikipedia rules prevent us from editing a page. -You can of course create one prior to contributing a show, or ask for one to be created. +You are allowed to create one prior to contributing a show, or ask for one to be created once you have.

-We do of course believe that Public Radio should have a Wikipedia entry. +We do believe that Public Radio should have a Wikipedia entry. We are one of the longest running podcasts having started as Today with a Techie on 2005-09-19. We also are unique in our community driven approach to producing shows. -And of course the fact that Wikipedia itself references us as a source +And of course there is the fact that Wikipedia itself references us as a source [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]

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We have also Interviewed may influential people, had presences at many conferences. -We have given many talks at conferences, and have been interviewed on other podcasts. -We also have been featured in the press.

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We have also Interviewed may influential people in the FLOSS Community. +We have given many talks at conferences, +have been interviewed on other podcasts, +and have been featured in the press +on multiple occasions.

Help the Free Culture Podcasts Project.

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The Free Culture Podcasts Project is a umbrella site run by the Hacker Public Radio community. We prefer to attend booths as the Free Culture Podcasts project so we can not only hilight HPR, but also other podcasts that release their shows under the Creatitive Commons deed.

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The Free Culture Podcasts Project is a umbrella site run by the Hacker Public Radio community. We prefer to attend booths as the Free Culture Podcasts project so we can not only highlight HPR, but also other podcasts that release their shows under the Creative Commons deed.

Please support our Supporters.

diff --git a/templates/content-contribute.tpl.html b/templates/content-contribute.tpl.html index 5b43aea..e840395 100644 --- a/templates/content-contribute.tpl.html +++ b/templates/content-contribute.tpl.html @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Once released, the creative commons license will allows sharing it to other loca

We will continue to promote new podcasts, and other creative commons material, -thought our sister site Free Culture Podcasts. +throught our sister site Free Culture Podcasts.

We do allow promotion of one example episode of creative commons content.