Who do you want us to interview?

[mowestusa]

Here is an idea that I think would provide for some interesting material. I know that it is hard each week to sometimes get people from the Linux community to talk about their projects. I also know that the TLLTS listener base is good sized.

Why not interview TLLTS listeners? Some basic questions would be...

How long have you been using Linux?
Why did you get into Linux?
What were your struggles in moving over to Linux?
What does the Linux community need to work on to get you completely converted over to Linux?
What is your Linux distro of choice on what kind of system?
How would you like to help the Linux community?

I'm sure that if some of the listeners would talk about some of the day to day ways they use our favorite opportating system they would give ideas to others listeners.

Perhaps by email, you could settle on a few things that you would like to discuss. Then have the listeners call in. One per week when you don't have guests lined up, line up a listener.

mowestusa

[Tsuroerusu]

Being the maniac that I am, thanks Pat, of staying late up at night, I think this would be a pretty good idea, but I don't think it's that cool in the long run, but I'd certainly be happy to be on the show, the only problem would be how you're gonna initiate the communication, because my bandwidth is very limited.

[mowestusa]

I agree that for the long haul, it isn't a good idea. In other words, I was not suggesting to have a listener interview every week. Instead, on the weeks they can't schedule a "real" guest it might be fun to break up the show with a 15-20 minute listener interview. The way Pat has been going getting guests for the show this might only be once or twice a month at the most.

Another nice benefit, it would help all of us on the forums to get to know one another a little better.

As far as calling in, if you bandwidth is limited then you are right it might not be practical from Denmark. However, for the US listeners a 15-20 minute phone call inside the US is cheap these days. Calling into the server wouldn't be too costly. I don't understand the cost to the TLLTS guys on their end though. We certainly wouldn't want to do anything that cost them more money.

mowestusa

[Tsuroerusu]

As far as calling in, if you bandwidth is limited then you are right it might not be practical from Denmark.

Well, I have an ADSL connection at 1024/128 which gives me 16kb/sec upload speed, so I can certainly run a Skype call, I just don't know how well it would work and long the latency would be.

[Patrick]

I've already got definites for the next 2 weeks:
Jeffrey Wade - worldwide marketing manager for HP's Open Source and Linux organization
Matt Mullweg - creator or Wordpress

After that I've got Judd Vinet and Dean Hagelund. I just have to get definite dates out of them.

I got negative replies for the vim guy and the id software guy. At least they responded to me fairly quickly. I'm waiting to hear back from a bunch of other potentially good guests.

This past weeks guest was very last minute because of the holidays. As a result I got burned. Live and learn.

[Tsuroerusu]

Jeffrey Wade - worldwide marketing manager for HP's Open Source and Linux organization.

Uhhh, I look forward to hearing him get grilled about Linux

Anyway, don't be too hard on the guy, HP has actually shipped laptops with SUSE Linux 9.1 preinstalled in the past, maybe they still do, to businesses, they showed it at Linux World sometime back in 2003.

[mowestusa]

Thanks Patrick for all of your hard work.

My suggestion was not meant as a cut against the wonderful job you have been doing in getting guests. I personally feel that your interviews have just gotten better and better, since you added them about a year ago. You have gotten some great guests to come onto the program too, people with really interesting stories behind their Linux background.

I listen to Lug radio for their interviews because they get some amazing people on their show too. The rest of the stuff I don't get too excited about, because they only talk about Ubuntu, and Ubuntu just doesn't seem to fit me.

You guys have a different interview style that I like. It is laid back, you address the person's area of expert knowledge, but then you cover more of the human story behind the person's work, by just chatting with the person as if he were in the room with you or as if he were drinking beers at a local establishment.

I suggested the idea of interviewing listeners just because there seem to be some amazing people who are on the forums. I know some of the fun times at our LUG meetings come after the LUG meetings when we go out to eat, and get to know one another and just chat about Linux and what we are excited about. Maybe interviewing listeners would take on that flavor. Definately don't do it in place of the excellent guests that you have been getting. It truely is a blessing to hear from these experts in the field.

I'm bummed about the VIM guy, because he has one of the most exciting projects in the Linux world. VIM helps keep the Linux CLI a fun place to play.

mowestusa

[Tsuroerusu]

I listen to Lug radio for their interviews because they get some amazing people on their show too. The rest of the stuff I don't get too excited about, because they only talk about Ubuntu, and Ubuntu just doesn't seem to fit me.

Yeah, them LugRadio guys need to try some other distribution than Ubuntu, and they need stop saying "it'd be bollocks" all the time, because it sounds major stupid when you say it seven times during the show. Also sometimes they just sounds like a bunch of piss drunk n00bs, and their interviews are too short and to little indepth.

You guys have a different interview style that I like. It is laid back, you address the person's area of expert knowledge, but then you cover more of the human story behind the person's work, by just chatting with the person as if he were in the room with you or as if he were drinking beers at a local establishment.

Good description, TLLTS-style interviews are the way to go, the interview with Greg Mancusi-Ungaro from Novell was just totally awesome, especially the last part where Greg suggested that he could come to Dann's house instead of fighting the VoIP connection, that was just funny man, Dann was like: "My dog would love you". Also that interview with Greg might have been the longest in TLLTS. I think it was like 80 mins., or something like that, of in-depth and on track stuff, compare that to LugRadio's 15 mins., TLLTS 0wned ya LugRadio, and with the new high quality OGG file, I don't feel the sound quality of LugRadio's post-processed show, is anywhere near that new OGG version.

[Patrick]

Thanks Patrick for all of your hard work.

You're welcome. Anything I can do to help the team.

My suggestion was not meant as a cut against the wonderful job you have been doing in getting guests.

None taken. I was pissed that the guy kinda blew us off. I could of had someone else come on instead. It was a topic I wanted to discuss. We move on.

I suggested the idea of interviewing listeners just because there seem to be some amazing people who are on the forums.

We used to do listener call ins via skype a while back. In fact I was one of the regular callers before joining the gang. Maybe we'll bring them back every once in a while. The only problem with that is the bandwidth gets eaten up pretty quickly and the audio starts getting choppy. Another challenge of a live show that the podcasts don't have.

I'm bummed about the VIM guy, because he has one of the most exciting projects in the Linux world. VIM helps keep the Linux CLI a fun place to play.

Don't be. His response was he'd rather work on vim instead of talking about it. Fair enough. At least he was very quick in responding.

Please continue suggesting guests. It makes my life easier. We've had some very cool guests who I would of never thought of inviting. I did so because of listener suggestions.

I really like the fact that there are other linux related shows. The more the merrier. I'm pissed when no one is releasing new episodes or takes extended breaks. We never take breaks. I kinda like that. I really hope we get a booth at the LWE in Boston. At the very least we'll have 3 days in a row of shows. Maybe more. I could probably line up enough guests for the whole year in those 3 days.

[Tsuroerusu]

We used to do listener call ins via skype a while back. In fact I was one of the regular callers before joining the gang. Maybe we'll bring them back every once in a while. The only problem with that is the bandwidth gets eaten up pretty quickly and the audio starts getting choppy. Another challenge of a live show that the podcasts don't have.

Sometimes when one of you guys can't be at Dann's for the live show, do you still use Skype for that or do you use Asterisk? Either one isn't that more bandwidth you guys need for that? The interview with Marcel last year sounded quite good and that was a Skype interview.

Please continue suggesting guests. It makes my life easier. We've had some very cool guests who I would of never thought of inviting. I did so because of listener suggestions.

I really like the fact that there are other linux related shows. The more the merrier. I'm pissed when no one is releasing new episodes or takes extended breaks. We never take breaks. I kinda like that. I really hope we get a booth at the LWE in Boston. At the very least we'll have 3 days in a row of shows. Maybe more. I could probably line up enough guests for the whole year in those 3 days.

Kinda like Linux distros huh? Because there is A LOT of them out there, some people might even make their own which they never publish but just have sitting on their own machine.
I like having a pretty "stable" release cycle of new episodes of stuff I listen to, that kind of calms my mind now that I need to take the train every morning to get to school 65 kilometers away
It's kind of nice to have something to listen to, only a problem when Dann's pulls up a story like the one in episode 93 and I'm sitting in the train with a lot of other people and are close to like laughing my ass off.

[snarkout]

I personally feel that your interviews have just gotten better and better, since you added them about a year ago. You have gotten some great guests to come onto the program too, people with really interesting stories behind their Linux background.

I listen to Lug radio for their interviews because they get some amazing people on their show too. The rest of the stuff I don't get too excited about, because they only talk about Ubuntu, and Ubuntu just doesn't seem to fit me.

You guys have a different interview style that I like. It is laid back, you address the person's area of expert knowledge, but then you cover more of the human story behind the person's work, by just chatting with the person as if he were in the room with you or as if he were drinking beers at a local establishment.

I want to echo these sentiments.

[Judland]

and Ubuntu just doesn't seem to fit me.

I hear ya and feel the same way. In fact, after using Arch (Underground Desktop) for a month now, I'm finding that most of the "noobie-centric" distros. don't suite me anymore. I really like the lean-ness and control Arch offers, even though it forces me to take time and learn a few things.

I still recommend Kanotix to beginners, but I don't think I could go back to it and be happy. And Ubuntu was never a distro. that I liked using for myself.

By the way.... the show is awesome!

[dann]

I'm up for listener call-ins. I'd like to hear what's going on in your world!

[CptnObvious999]

I'm up for listener call-ins. I'd like to hear what's going on in your world!

Great now I got to buy a headset (my dog broke my others )

[Tsuroerusu]

I'm up for listener call-ins. I'd like to hear what's going on in your world!

Dann, say if I were to be on the show, how big should my upload bandwidth be for it to work properly?