From 7c982732360518486ea39fdd6244158ffd650907 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ken Fallon
Hacker Public Radio is a communty podcast where the shows are provided by the community, and is also
- governed by the community,
- and we rely on the support our Patrons
+ governed by the community,
+ and we rely on the support our Patrons
to provide the hosting infrastructure.
If there is a technical topic you would like us to cover, or if you are looking for topics to record a show on,
- then look no further than our Requested topics page.
- How to Help.
+ How to Help.
Submit a show
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@
Suggest Topics
@@ -167,12 +167,12 @@
Please be aware that our Archive exceeds 62Gb (Ogg: 21Gb, Spx: 16Gb, mp3: 25Gb). We are happy for you to download them, but please make sure that you are not going to incur additional bandwidth charges on your side.
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ The first thing you will need to do is decide on a topic for your show. You might already have an idea but if not you can have a look at our Archive page for examples of shows people have recorded in the past. You can also look at our - Requested Topics, or our + Requested Topics, or our Series page to see if you can add your knowledge to the pool.@@ -242,14 +242,14 @@ on how to record a show:
Don't forget to introduce yourself in your show.
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ so you may wish to use an email address that has an associated public key available on public key servers.- More Information. + More Information.
This is some important information that you will need to know before uploading to HPR.
Once you upload a show, you will no longer be allowed to create or edit pages relating to
Hacker Public Radio in
Wikipedia.
- See our FAQ about
+ See our FAQ about
the HPR Wikipedia page for more information.
The community decides the HPR policies. Please join the HPR Mailing List to participate.
Hacker Public Radio is dedicated to sharing knowledge. We release about 260 shows a year, which is probably more than all of the other FOSS podcasts put together. If you listen to HPR, then we would love you to - contribute + contribute one show a year. Remember once that all the reserve shows have been used up and there are no more shows in the queue, HPR as a project will stop.
-Our hosting is kindly provided to us by Josh Knapp from AnHonestHost.com, and The Internet Archive at Archive.org. @@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ Over the years kind people have donated services and supported equipment for our conferences.
-HPR is founded on the principle of Hackers sharing knowledge. For this reason we are only releasing material created exclusively for HPR. @@ -441,7 +441,7 @@
All our shows are now released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) @@ -451,7 +451,7 @@
Never include content, for example music, in your show that you do not have permission to redistribute. Try to avoid using any content in your show that can not be redistributed under a @@ -463,7 +463,7 @@
We do not vet, edit, moderate or in any way censor any of the audio you submit, we trust you to do that. Aside from checking snippets for audio quality/spam checking, @@ -484,7 +484,7 @@
Given that we are an open forum for free speech we signal all our shows as "explicit" with the assumption that the listeners will apply the required discretion when playing the shows in public. @@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ describes the agreed approach to this topic.
-The HPR Schedule is entirely community driven and we recommend that you pick the date or show number as then you know when your show will be released. @@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ Once the slots have been allocated it is not possible to move them.
-Any host can select any free slot a up to year in advance. However the audio must be ready at time of picking a slot so that it can be upload immediately afterwards. @@ -541,12 +541,12 @@
-See the video "Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle - Computerphile" for an interesting background to ASCII and UTF-8.-
When you includes output from the command line in the show notes, posting screen-shots of console or terminal output
makes it impossible for screen readers to access the text.
@@ -555,13 +555,13 @@
Include descriptive language in any link texts.
Avoid structures like: "For accessibility information click
- here"
+ here"
Rather use: "For more information click our
- accessibility page"
+ accessibility page"
We have people listening from all over the world, who may not have the same cultural background as yourself, therefore you should be as clear as possible when giving details. @@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ title="ISO 8601 was published on 06/05/88 and most recently amended on 12/01/04." alt="An xkcd cartoon showing ISO 8601" />
-The reserve queue is intended only to be used in the cases where there is still a gap in the schedule 24 hours prior to release. This was known as the emergency queue, but now can also be used when the hosts don't care when the shows are scheduled. @@ -607,7 +607,7 @@ so keep that in mind. Don't forget to introduce yourself in your show.
Many of today's portable media players support recording audio out of the box. Search for "Voice Recorder", to see if there is an application for your smartphone. @@ -618,11 +618,11 @@ and so long as it's audible we'll take it.
- Then just record your show, request a slot, + Then just record your show, request a slot, and we'll do the rest.
-Some of our hosts recommend Android Audio Recorder on my android phone. It's available on F-Droid @@ -637,7 +637,7 @@ -
The majority of podcasters use Audacity. First set the Project Rate to 44100Hz, then you can either record your show in Audacity itself or @@ -663,7 +663,7 @@
-If you want to record a one-to-one interview with someone then you can use Skype in conjunction with Skype Call Recorder. @@ -672,7 +672,7 @@ record with a portable media player.
-
If you would like to record with multiple participants then you can use Mumble.
Connect to chatter.skyehaven.net Port: 64738 .
@@ -688,7 +688,7 @@
You may include backing music but it's best if you don't. Most long time podcast listeners speed up their shows, as this allows them to cram more shows into a day. Having bedding music makes it more difficult to understand, @@ -698,13 +698,13 @@ Others are hard of hearing and backing music makes it difficult to understand the text.
-We will by default mix down your show to one channel mono and we will transcode to MP3, ogg and spx formats. If you want to control this in more detail then please email admin at Hacker Public Radio for more information.
-There is no need to add any information to the file as that will be inserted based on the information you fill in when you upload the show.
@@ -793,7 +793,7 @@If you want to see what topics have been covered so far just have a look at our Archive. We also allow for shows to be grouped into series so that hosts can go into more detail on a topic.
Look at the About HPR +
Look at the About HPR page for a full description of The HPR Community, Free Culture, Governance and our Patrons.
A question on the mailing list in 2020 asked if HPR is a Content Publication Network like YouTube, or is it a Podcast that random people contribute to? Or to put it another way, is the host addressing the @@ -992,7 +992,7 @@
Similarly, a summary helps to add more information describing the show so a potential listener can decide whether to listen to it or not.
Each show is expected to have certain mandatory attributes listed - below.
HPR shows are usually expected to be informative or educational, and as such some sort of accompanying written material is highly desirable. This might consist of brief notes, links to relevant web sites, or possibly longer notes and examples. Photographs, diagrams and example files are also welcome if the host feels @@ -1024,7 +1024,7 @@
See Picking a slot for your show for the full details of how to submit a show and what information is required.
A quick summary of the main components is:
We are working on the production of reports about any changes made, which will be sent to the host after we have processed the show.
We may make changes to a show's metadata if the host requests it (see the item on - + fixing errors after upload).
If a show contains links to resources which disappear after a period of time, we may at some future time change the notes to refer to any Wayback Machine copy that can be found.