HPR1851: HPR Community News for August 2015

In today's show Jon, Dave and Ken discuss some topics such as,

• What format to upload show notes in ?
• Multimeter Tutorials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBbgiBU96mM
  https://www.youtube.com/user/mjlorton
• Lack of community contributions

Hi All,

I am concerned as to the health of HPR, and I touched (went on a rant to
be honest) on this in the Community News show that will be released
tomorrow.

We have 16,495 subscribers and 260 slots per year, so we need to have
only 2.5% subscribers contributing to have a different host for every
day. Unfortunately only 62 managed to contribute a show in the last 365
days. I don't need Charles in NJ to tell me that that's only 0.38% of
our subscriber base.

As a project that is supposed to be a "Community Podcast", but we're
looking less like a bar camp and more like a TED talk.

It gets worse. Dave ran the query of how many shows were contributed by
each host over the last 365 days. It shows that 50% of the shows have
been contributed by just 5 hosts. This is not to say that submitting
multiple shows is bad, far from it. But it's the difference between
wanting to submit multiple shows and *needing* to submit multiple shows,
that I'm concerned about.

So a few questions for the list:

- Is this a problem ?
- If so, how do we fix it ?

*Please* do not derail this discussion about your intentions to record a
show. I have a in box full of "I plan to do a show about this" or "I'm
definitely doing a series on that". More than one are from myself.
Basically if it's not on the server, it's not a show.

You can always add a topic to the requested topic page.
https://gitlab.anhonesthost.com/HPR/HPR_Public_Code/blob/master/www/reque
sted_topics.html



More Info: https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1851_HPR_Health_2015-09-06.ods

Raw SQL Dump here: 

+--------+--------------------------------+-------+
| hostid | host                           | shows |
+--------+--------------------------------+-------+
|    198 | Ahuka                          |    38 |
|    238 | Jon Kulp                       |    24 |
|    159 | HPR Volunteers                 |    18 |
|    225 | Dave Morriss                   |    17 |
|    131 | FiftyOneFifty                  |    17 |
|     30 | Ken Fallon                     |    14 |
|     78 | klaatu                         |     7 |
|    209 | David Whitman                  |     7 |
|    280 | semioticrobotic                |     6 |
|    235 | NYbill                         |     6 |
|    288 | beni                           |     6 |
|    195 | Frank Bell                     |     6 |
|     24 | Lord Drachenblut               |     6 |
|    287 | corenominal                    |     5 |
|    282 | Mike Ray                       |     5 |
|    129 | JWP                            |     4 |
|    265 | Kevin Wisher                   |     4 |
|    240 | Steve Bickle                   |     4 |
|    297 | swift110                       |     4 |
|    286 | cjm                            |     3 |
|    285 | 2BFrank                        |     3 |
|    107 | lostnbronx                     |     3 |
|    259 | Gabriel Evenfire               |     3 |
|    215 | Windigo                        |     3 |
|    296 | Kevie                          |     3 |
|    300 | b-yeezi                        |     3 |
|    284 | Steve Smethurst                |     2 |
|    233 | johanv                         |     2 |
|    252 | Curtis Adkins (CPrompt^)       |     2 |
|    294 | daw                            |     2 |
|    302 | Stilvoid                       |     2 |
|    197 | garjola                        |     1 |
|    134 | PipeManMusic                   |     1 |
|    268 | Andrew Conway                  |     1 |
|    283 | Inscius                        |     1 |
|    289 | pyrrhic                        |     1 |
|    290 | Al                             |     1 |
|    158 | Various Creative Commons Works |     1 |
|    109 | Various Hosts                  |     1 |
|    291 | Rill                           |     1 |
|    292 | Michal Cieraszynski            |     1 |
|    270 | Thaj Sara                      |     1 |
|    293 | Rho`n                          |     1 |
|    295 | Cibola Jerry                   |     1 |
|    246 | Beeza                          |     1 |
|    201 | MrX                            |     1 |
|    298 | tcuc                           |     1 |
|    111 | Knightwise                     |     1 |
|    299 | Fin                            |     1 |
|    301 | amp                            |     1 |
|    157 | HPR_AudioBookClub              |     1 |
|    303 | Alpha32                        |     1 |
|    306 | GNULinuxRTM                    |     1 |
|    305 | kurakura                       |     1 |
|    229 | Charles in NJ                  |     1 |
|    263 | Tony Pelaez                    |     1 |
|    307 | cheeto4493                     |     1 |
|    271 | mirwi                          |     1 |
|    255 | Matt McGraw (g33kdad)          |     1 |
|    308 | A Shadowy Figure               |     1 |
|    309 | folky                          |     1 |
|    115 | sigflup                        |     1 |
+--------+--------------------------------+-------+

Regards,

Ken Fallon
https://kenfallon.com
https://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=30

New hosts

Welcome to our new hosts:
A Shadowy Figure, folky.

Last Month's Shows

Mailing List discussions

Policy decisions surrounding HPR are taken by the community as a whole. This discussion takes place on the Mail List which is open to all HPR listeners and contributors. The discussions are open and available on the Gmane archive.

The main threads this month were:

1. From: Dave Morriss <perloid@...>
   Date: 2015-08-15 14:57:43 +0100
   Subject: Help with tags and summaries
   Link: https://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.syndication.podcast.hacker-public-radio/906
   Messages: 1
   
   
2. From: Kevin O'Brien <zwilnik@...>
   Date: 2015-08-15 19:17:10 -0400
   Subject: Jon Kulp and group efforts
   Link: https://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.syndication.podcast.hacker-public-radio/907
   Messages: 2
   
   
3. From: Ken Fallon <ken@...>
   Date: 2015-08-19 11:48:59 +0200
   Subject: Do you owe me a show ?
   Link: https://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.syndication.podcast.hacker-public-radio/909
   Messages: 2
   

Comments this month

There are 36 comments:

• hpr1612 (2014-10-07) "Don't Forget the Referbs" by NYbill.
  • Comment 5: NYbill on 2015-08-15: "Sorry I'm late..."
  
  
• hpr1810 (2015-07-10) "17 - LastPass Hacked - What Does It Mean?" by Ahuka.
  • Comment 1: amp on 2015-08-08: "but it is not free software"
  
  
• hpr1827 (2015-08-04) "How I make bread" by Dave Morriss.
  • Comment 1: Charlie Ebert on 2015-08-03: "Me."
  • Comment 2: Daniel Worth on 2015-08-07: "Great!"
  • Comment 3: Dave Morriss on 2015-08-10: "Thanks for the feeedback"
  
  
• hpr1828 (2015-08-05) "Multimeter Mod's Part 1" by NYbill.
  • Comment 1: Jon Kulp on 2015-08-05: "Awesome"
  • Comment 2: NYbill on 2015-08-06:"[no title]"
  
  
• hpr1829 (2015-08-06) "My "New" Used Kindle DX" by Jon Kulp.
  • Comment 1: Fweeb on 2015-08-07: "BQ Cervantes?"
  • Comment 2: cybergrue on 2015-08-07: "One thing you missed"
  • Comment 3: Jon Kulp on 2015-08-07: "good catch (PDFs)"
  • Comment 4: Jon Kulp on 2015-08-07: "Cervantes Reader"
  
  
• hpr1830 (2015-08-07) "How Holland Works: GreenWheels" by Ken Fallon.
  • Comment 1: FiftyOneFifty on 2015-07-16: "I thought this was about the dikes"
  • Comment 2: Dave Morriss on 2015-08-11: "Thanks for the insight"
  
  
• hpr1831 (2015-08-10) "Are speed listening and slow background music compatible?" by A Shadowy Figure.
  • Comment 1: Jon Kulp on 2015-08-09: "1.7x"
  • Comment 2: Kevin O'Brien on 2015-08-10: "1.7x works for me"
  • Comment 3: A Shadowy Figure on 2015-08-10: "Thanks, now I have a starting point"
  • Comment 4: Windigo on 2015-08-17: "Normal - 1.5x"
  
  
• hpr1832 (2015-08-11) "Simplify writing using markdown and pandoc" by b-yeezi.
  • Comment 1: 0xf10e on 2015-08-11: "thx, very useful"
  • Comment 2: Jon Kulp on 2015-08-12: "plus HTML as needed"
  • Comment 3: Dave Morriss on 2015-08-17: "Excellent episode"
  
  
• hpr1836 (2015-08-17) "The Statusnet Shuffle" by NYbill.
  • Comment 1: 0xf10e on 2015-08-17: "you should put up some VPS based blog ;)"
  • Comment 2: NYbill on 2015-08-18: "maybe some day..."
  
  
• hpr1837 (2015-08-18) "Put an SSD in your Linux Box" by 2BFrank.
  • Comment 1: 0xf10e on 2015-08-18: "correction on TRIM"
  • Comment 2: noah on 2015-08-21: "minimizing writes"
  
  
• hpr1838 (2015-08-19) "Waking up with Windigo" by Windigo.
  • Comment 1: Jon Kulp on 2015-08-19: "The Very Essence"
  • Comment 2: Dave Morriss on 2015-08-19: "I wouldn't have done it that way..."
  • Comment 3: NYbill on 2015-08-20:"[no title]"
  • Comment 4: Beeza on 2015-08-20: "Geekdom At Its Very Best"
  
  
• hpr1841 (2015-08-24) "My way into Linux" by folky.
  • Comment 1: Windigo on 2015-08-31: "Great first episode!"
  
  
• hpr1842 (2015-08-25) "TiT Radio 20 You've Been Pwned (probably)" by FiftyOneFifty.
  • Comment 1: 0xf10e on 2015-08-25: "Re: Car Malware "
  • Comment 2: Mike Ray on 2015-08-25: "We're doomed I tell eee"
  
  
• hpr1843 (2015-08-26) "Some Bash tips" by Dave Morriss.
  • Comment 1: Ken Fallon on 2015-08-26: "Obsolete ?"
  • Comment 2: Dave Morriss on 2015-08-28: "Maybe obsolescent or outmoded"
  
  
• hpr1844 (2015-08-27) "The Marantz PMD 660 Professional Solid State Recorder" by Jon Kulp.
  • Comment 1: Mike Ray on 2015-08-29: "Quality"
  • Comment 2: Jon Kulp on 2015-08-30: "Open Goldberg!"
  • Comment 3: Kevin O'Brien on 2015-08-31: "Agree with Mike"

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