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<h3>New hosts</h3>
Welcome to 
<a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents/0141.html">Dismal Science</a>, 
<a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents/0142.html">N50</a> 
and 
<a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents/0143.html">Broam</a>.

<h3>Show Review</h3>
<li>632 Droops:: Notebook Method for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_deficit_hyperactivity_disorder">ADHD</a></li>
<!--By explaining how he copes with ADHD, we got a gimps of how difficult it must be to live with this condition.-->
<li>633 Skirlet:: The Language Frontier Episode 1 </li>
<!--I suspect that many common misconceptions will be shattered by the end of what promises to be an excellent series on language.-->
<li>634 klaatu:: Urban Camping ep 5 - finding food</li>
<!--Never one to shirk from controversy in this episode klaatu calls into question the morality of food supply.-->
<li>635 Dismal Science:: Cloudy Predictions</li>
<!--A new host bringing us a wake up call about the realities of cloud computing. Will the people footing the bill keep footing the bill.-->
<li>636 pokey:: Kid3-qt</li>
<!--First of all a big apologies to pokey for forgetting to add this show to the calendar. Pokey gives us a run through of the kid3 application for adding metadata to audio files. Greetings from Holland to his mother. And she is not exempt from my new year resolution to turn every listener into a HPR host. More about this later -->
<li>637 brother mouse:: Every Day Carry</li>
<!--Started by Dave S. Yates, brother mouse continues the tradition of letting us in on his daily carry. He's a Texan so the sidearm and knife were no surpise but sadly missing was any mention of his hat.-->
<li>638 klaatu:: Urban Camping ep 6</li>
<!--Klaatu gives some money saving tips and it prompted me to do my own episode on a way in which we saved a lot of money-->
<li>639 droops:: Podcasts are not Radio</li>
<!--Keep is short sweet and to the point. There is no time constraints on HPR ans if you can give us a tip in 5 minutes well that's great. Idealy we'd have a nice mix of show lengths.-->
<li>640 PipeManMusic:: About microphones</li>
<!--We asked for the down and dirt about audio and PipeManMusic stepped up to the plate. This series will be referenced near and far-->
<li>641 klaatu:: Urban Camping ep 7</li>
<!--The last in the series and I'm sad to see it go. Not that I've turned into a vagrant but this show made me look at the world a little differently-->
<li>642 brother mouse:: Hacking Your Suburban Backyard with Chickens</li>
<!-- Proof that you have no clue what's coming next on HPR. It took me a while to figure out what he ment by a Tractor -->
<li>643 droops:: Whats on my MP3 Player</li>
<!-- I hated this show. Now I have a long list of great podcasts to listen to -->
<li>644 N50:: The Plop Boot Loader and UNetbootin- A Great Team</li>
<!-- It's realy cool the number of people recycling old systems. This show will probably result in two old pc's in my basement getting new life--> 
<li>645 Curbuntu and Baylee Juran:: The Dinosaur's Dilemma</li>
<!-- Curbuntu shares with us Baylee's story of someone wanting to make a shift into the world of geekdom. This is her story. -->
<li>646 Dismal Science:: Do you need a carrier plan with Android</li>
<!-- This is one of the ones where you realize that each market is different. We don't have open wifi here in NL and I have unlimited for €10/pm -->
<li>647 brother mouse :: How I Got Into Linux</li>
<!-- His third show this month he takes on the . We had some audio issues with this show having a  sample rate is set to 11025. I check all the shows with mplayer before and after upload. It turns out that VLC can't handle this. Thanks to ClaudioM for pointing this out. If you notice problems with the sound please email admin asap so that we can get it fixed. I've uploaded a new version so please download that again. -->
<li>648 Ken Fallon:: Wput: a command-line ftp-client</li>
<!-- Taking a lesson from Droops. I want to release some short shows highlighting a small programs that I use often but might not be that well known. I have a few more coming - feel free to add your own -->
<li>649 Quvmoh and Phantom Hawk:: Doing your own auto repairs </li>
<!-- I don't have a car and this brought me back to maintenance of my first car and replacing one new years evening where I had to replace a front shock out on the front street of my parents house -->
<li>650 Broam:: Dumpster Diving</li>
<!-- More people rescuing old stuff and putting it to good use. This is Broam's first show and I hope not his last -->

<h3>Podcasts by Phone</h3>
<p>
Every listener is strongly encouraged to send us one contribution per year.<br />
In episode 636 pokey told us that his Mother also listens to the show from time to time<br />
To make it easy for <strong>everyone and anyone</strong> to contribute we now have call in lines<br />
<li>US:  +1-206-312-5749 </li>
<li>UK: +44-203-432-5879 </li>
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Please include your name and email address.<br />
DON'T FORGET TO ADD THE # SIGN AT THE END<br />
Thanks to Russ Woodman - K5TUX and Arron 'Finux' Finnon for making this possible.
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<h3>Automation and RSS feed</h3>
<ul>
<li>RSS Feed: Delayed as it requires DB changes</li>
<!-- New feed created problems with Rhythmbox (Bill Plants), and gpodder Larry Bushey going linux podcast  -->
<li>Website: Site update that will allow you to upload a show on the website.</li>
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<!-- 
All or nothing deal. 
Hosts will require a login and a valid email address. 
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<h3>Syndicates Shows</h3>
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I'm running into some difficulties with how best to address syndicated shows and I'd appreciate your feedback.
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<p>
The background is that I'm trying to specify scheduling rules (https://hackerpublicradio.org/calendar.php) trying to been fair to everyone but also with a view to automating the task. I've taken the view that shows produced for HPR will get priority in the schedule before syndicated shows. This brings up the question of what is a syndicated shows.
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If a show is posted to a RSS feed before been posted to HPR then it would be considered to be a syndicated show. However we have had resubmission of a series that was on a podcast that faded so probably no one heard them. Are theses shows now syndicated or do I schedule them as HPR shows ?
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We have also had submissions from a host that posts to the HPR FTP server and their own feed at the same time. Because of the delay in HPR scheduling they come out later than their own RSS feed. So are these also now syndicated ?
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<p>
After hearing 635 Dismal Science:: Cloudy Predictions I was reminded that the speech <a href="https://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2010/isoc-ny/FreedomInTheCloud-transcript.html">Freedom In the Cloud: Software Freedom, Privacy, and Security for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing</a> by A Speech given by Eben Moglen at a meeting of the Internet Society's New York branch on Feb 5, 2010 would be ideal for HPR. Then Fifty OneFifty emailed to say "I noticed there hadn't been any recordings from LUG meetings in a while.  I thought you might want to ask for submissions where meetings or talks (from various fests) are already recorded." With the scheduling rules as they are at the moment, the syndicated don't ever get played.
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<ol>
<li>Time critical</li>
<li>Scheduled Slots</li>
<li>New Hosts</li>
<li>HPR Content on a First in First Out basis.</li>
<li>Syndicated shows on a First in First Out basis.</li>
</ol>
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On the other side I've had comments that the "Flood Gates" had been opened on the HPR feed.
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So thinking about it I was thinking of reserving Tuesday and Thursday for syndicated shows, LUG talks, Speeches and the like.
<!-- We could even create a diet hpr feed that would exclude these shows. -->
Feedback to the mailing list https://hackerpublicradio.org/maillist
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<h3>Design Competition</h3> 
<p>I would like to have some mini-business cards made. Go to <a href="https://kenfallon.com/?p=827">https://kenfallon.com/?p=827</a> for more information.</p> 

<h3>HPR Promotion</h3>
<ol>
<li>Going Linux podcast re-purposed the "Tom Merritt" episode for their Christmas-break episode <a href="https://www.goinglinux.com/2010shownotes.html#glp124">124</a>.</li>
<li>Finux interviewed me on the first episode of his new podcasts <a href="https://www.finux.co.uk/">Finux's Tech Weekly</li>
<li>Dan and the lads at <a href="https://tllts.org/">TLLTs</a> have been pimping HPR all month.</li>
<li>Linux Outlaws gave us a big plug on episode <a href="https://linuxoutlaws.com/podcast/187">187</a></li>
<li>Jonathan Nadeau over at <a href="https://www.frostbitemedia.org/">Frost Cast</a> for playing our promo</li>
<li>Pokey has ordered the HPR stickers and thanks to Code Cruncher, Maia came to our rescue again. She uploaded all those shows to archive.org last month</li>
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<h3>Mirrors</h3>
<p>
Archive.org <a href="https://www.archive.org/details/hackerpublicradio">https://www.archive.org/details/hackerpublicradio</a><br />
Jason Scott's textfiles.com <a href="https://audio.textfiles.com/shows/hpr/ ">https://audio.textfiles.com/shows/hpr/ </a>
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<h3>Other News</h3>
<ul>
<li>Thanks Dave P. for point out that Caro.net link not working </li>
<li>sp0rus has signed up for a "Nameless Infosec Podcast on the first Tuesday of the month.</li>
<li>Stank tells us that there is already an icecast server set up and running so we can stream HPR shows</li>
<li>Ilan Rabinovitch links to banners for scale 9 which is on between 2011/02/25 and 2011/02/27</li>
<li>If you have promotion banners please send them along and we'll add them to the site.</li>
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Also feel free to include promos in your shows
If anyone want's to do a what's coming soon show with promos and info please do.
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<li>I still haven't found a way to automate the upload to Archive.org - anyone want to investigate that ? </li>
<li>We have a facebook group at <a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/facebook" target="_blank">hackerpublicradio.org/facebook</a></li>
<!-- I don't think there is a way to auto add people but anyone can join -->
<li>We have a Linked-In group <a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/linkedin" target="_blank">hackerpublicradio.org/linkedin </a></li>
<li>We have a iTunes page at <a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/itunes" target="_blank">hackerpublicradio.org/itunes</a></li>
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<h3>A word from our spammers</h3>
<p>Only the last few are holding out now that we approve all comments but some still continue to visit.</p>
