No, it wasn't bad at all, and it's always fun. But I think that in terms of utilizing the event, we are doing it poorly. People can jump on and hang out any time; it feels like it would be smarter to use it as a time to trick people into giving us a whole big dump of shows :-)
And in terms of re-listenability, I personally think that the NYE show has zero potential. I can't imagine why anyone would want to listen to a show of people just hanging out not really talking about anything. Then again, people are strange so maybe I'm wrong! -klaatu On 01/09/2015 12:52 PM, Jason Dodd wrote: > I like the show as is but would probably also like an unconference, > too. Was the show this year bad? > > I thought the specific point was to be pub like for new year. If it's > shifting to another day it wouldn't be the same, which might not be > bad. Do you think we'd be able to get speakers for an unconference > during the holiday season? > > > On 01/08/2015 06:14 PM, Mike Ray wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Please excuse the top-posting... >> >> Here's my tuppence worth. I listened to about five or so hours worth in >> all. Much of which was very entertaining. I happened to catch the bits >> where Jonathan and another chap I don't know were talking about >> syntax-highlighting for blind programmer's and I was screaming >> 'Emacspeak, Emacspeak' at my computer. >> >> But this was the first time I have tried to use mumble and failed >> miserably. Both on Windows and Linux. I'm keen to hear how Jonathan >> has done it. I think Qt is forever moving forward with accessibility so >> maybe later this year it will be more usable. There's supposed to be a >> lib which should make writing a client easy so if I can get my head >> round that maybe I'll have a crack at writing a GTK client. >> >> Now I have to admit to finding some of what I heard a little like >> overhearing a chat in a pub. But I know the content can only be as good >> as those who join in. >> >> Not sure there is really enough stuff to fill 26 hours though, and to >> justify the amount of work it makes for the obvious, yourself and Ken >> mostly I guess :) >> >> Don't worry about hearing it referred to as the 5150 show, your efforts >> are much appreciated. >> >> Mike >> >> >> >> On 08/01/2015 22:43, Fifty OneFifty wrote: >>> While it's fresh in our minds, I thought we might go over what we'd >>> like to do different next year. I truly did not mean to monopolize >>> the show (I heard it called the FiftyOneFifty New Year's Eve Special >>> on tllts last night). What does anyone think of going back to the >>> original 12 hr format? At the risk of offending our round the world >>> listeners, until about 9-10am my time, there was usually just me and >>> one other person talking, and participation dropped of after midnight >>> in California (sorry JRullo, we may have to leave New year's in Hawaii >>> to the after show). >>> >>> What else could we do differently? I know there were some >>> accessibility issues in Mumble (Jonathan tells me he solves them with >>> menu shortcuts). If we want to do something, we have a year to come >>> up with an accessibility how-to, contribute accessibility friendly >>> code, or find a different platform. >>> >>> 5150 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Hpr mailing list >>> Hpr@hackerpublicradio.org >>> http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org >>> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Hpr mailing list > Hpr@hackerpublicradio.org > http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org > > _______________________________________________ Hpr mailing list Hpr@hackerpublicradio.org http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org
