Hello Michelle, You have wonderful voice and I really enjoyed listening how you speak. To make things easy I suggest http://www.odiogo.com/ text-to-speech tool. It becomes very popular these days because people usually translate blogs and articles of interest to MP3s and listen them while they are travelling to the work place. I want to say big thank you because you translated my idea to reality (I know that it is much easier to write ideas then to put them into reality).
My original idea is slightly different. I was thinking about this weekly news podcast as a typical radio news show. It should has three parts: *Highlights (from one to three sentences about each news)-up to 1min *Detailed news (covering each news with journalistic type of view)-up to 15 min *Event of the week (interview with one or more persons covering most significant event or project of that week, or if there is not any such thing then speaking with one of many of different UGs leaders, Community leaders, etc.) - up to 15min. Also show should have covered background sound which logically divides each part, like in any other radio news show (i.e. BBC World Service). Uros -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:advocacy-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Michelle Olson Sent: April 1, 2009 9:25 PM To: ADVOCACY-DISCUSS Subject: Re: [advocacy-discuss] One proposal Hi all, I gave this idea a try here: http://mediacast.sun.com/users/michelle12345/media/osol_news.mp3/details It is an 11-minute podcast of the monthly newsletter content. This is my first podcast, so there are some sound quality issues I will resolve if you all think this is worth continuing. It only took one hour, which is about all the time I could put into this, but I'm happy to record these. Thanks to Uros for this great idea and of course to Jim Grisanzio for driving the newsletter. Even if it isn't what we decide to do, I really enjoyed trying it out. -Michelle On 03/29/09 23:23, Mykola Maslov wrote: > > > Heh, agree, let`s see how podcast idea will show itself. > >> My idea is to be simple that ANYONE in the world could access to it, >> and to be something like news oriented show. >> >> Your idea is advanced but, also much more technically oriented, similar >> to some short video tutorials. I do not have anything against that, but >> from my perspective, weekly based news/talk show podcast will be enough >> for the first time. >> >> Uros >>> It will be very nice that SUN establish 30min audio podcast >>> dedicated to >>> OpenSolaris on a weekly basis designed by professional journalist. Each >>> week should be covered past week in OpenSolaris world, added with >>> conversation >>> with one of SUN engineers, OGB members or people from UGs explaining >>> some interesting topic. It will be very nice to hear how people see >>> OpenSolaris >>> from various part of the world. >>> >>> From my perspective Community based business model, is [business] >>> model >>> for >>> 21st century. It already has huge impact in economy, culture and >>> absolutely >>> will have in government politics and collecting humanity together >>> around >> one >>> idea - respect, educaton and happiness for all! >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Uros >>> >>> >> >> >> >> I think that simply audio podcast is a little archaic... >> >> Video podcast, showing OS advantages and usage of different software >> on OS >> will have much more influence. Like using Gimp triks, or OpenOffice, >> or building of home NAS, whatever... >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ advocacy-discuss mailing list advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss
