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["Clement Lefebvre" <clement.lefebvre@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Congratulations! This for me was the most important milestone, to have a
great recording. Here's my feedback: 

About the recording:
--------------------

- You're a brilliant host. I'm amazed at how good you were on that
recording. Your pace is perfect, you're confident, great voice, great
intonations and tone. It was very nice to listen to. It's hard to keep
people's attention in a monologue and I have to say I really enjoyed
listening to you. I'm confident you'll be successful with this podcast.
I also loved the way you talked, you were prepared, you knew where you
were going and it wasn't all "written down". Sounded really natural and
it was very pleasant. 

- The sound quality is great. 

- If you get quality jingles and sounds and if you break the show into
sections you'll have something I'll be looking forward to listen to on a
weekly basis even more so than the Linux Action Show :)) 

About the content: 
------------------

- LSI is a rebranded version of mintInstall 4.x. It's 100% based on our
own technology :) It's a pity you didn't talk about our own Software
Portal:  http://www.linuxmint.com/software , it brings as much as
tuxsoftware.com and it's integrated within Linux Mint (Menu -> Software
Portal / mintInstall). 

- There's a comprehensive chapter in the user guide about installing
software via synaptic, apt and mintInstall. It also goes through the
advantages over Windows and the philosophy behind repositories:
http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/5/user-guide/EN-v1.pdf

- In Linux Mint 6 (RC1 is coming out today/tomorrow), mintInstall comes
with a brand new frontend called the "Software Manager", more info on
mintInstall 5: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=239

Overall:
--------

It wasn't just great, it was far better than anything I would have
imagined. I'm sure you'll get the jingles & sounds you need to make this
a great podcast. The challenge will be to see if you can keep the pace
and release on a weekly basis. Having your own .com and generating your
own revenue will help. I'll also greatly promote the show myself.
Regarding the podcast itself there's no doubt in my mind, it's going to
be an excellent one. You just amazed me with that recording. The only
thing I think you can improve on is your knowledge of Linux Mint. You
know quite a lot about Linux but it sounds like you're using Mint as if
it was Ubuntu. There are a few technologies and innovations which make
Mint even easier and it'd be a pity not to take advantage of them. I'll
make sure we keep in contact and I'll let you know how to find out more
about our own technology. I'll also keep you in the loop when there are
news from the team. 

PS: I'll be away for 2 weeks so I won't be able to help much during that
time. I'm delighted I could hear that recording though, it's truly
brilliant. 

Congratulations Charles, 

Clem.

-----Original Message-----
From: olsen.cm@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:olsen.cm@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Charles Olsen
Sent: 10 November 2008 02:09
To: Clement Lefebvre
Cc: Linux Mint Podcast List
Subject: Re: [Linuxmint-podcast-project] Don't panic

OK, it is now visible on mintcast.org. There was one more field I hadn't
noticed -- by default, it doesn't publish until midnight in the time
zone it was posted from. I moved it back to 8:00pm local time, and it's
there now.

In case it wasn't clear from my earlier message, I am going to re-record
the segment where I talk about installing software.
Hopefully I can get it a little smoother than this one. The content will
basically be the same, though.

So again, I just need to sort out the various pieces of music, and I'm
ready to go.


On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Charles Olsen <charles.olsen@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I have posted a test podcast. I don't see it yet on mintcast.org, but 
> the status shows as Published so I expect it will show up shortly.
>
> I seem to have the tools and skills needed to make this happen. What I

> posted here is a VERY rough version of what my first podcast will talk

> about in the main segment. This test doesn't include news, user 
> feedback, etc.
>
> What I still need is music -- free music, I don't want to pay $25,000 
> to put music into the podcast.
>
> I need:
>
> Opening music
>
> Closing music (can be the same as the opening music)
>
> Bumper music
>
> The bumper music can be just one piece, or there could be different 
> music for the bumper before news, bumper before main story, bumper 
> before user feedback, etc.
>
> Once I have the pieces of music, I can start assembling real podcasts.
>
> I do not want to play music while I'm talking. That annoys me a lot 
> when other podcasters do that. It's too easy to have the music too 
> loud so that it makes the voice track hard to listen to. So I just 
> need short pieces -- bumpers of 5-8 seconds, and opening / closing of 
> 30 to 45 seconds.
>
> The second show will be about backups, specifically mintBackup, 
> FlyBack and JungleDisk.
>
> If it shows up, have a listen and let me know what you think.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charles
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Clement Lefebvre 
> <clement.lefebvre@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Just a quick word to say that I can't wait to listen to the first 
>> recordings. I'm not too worried about the website, even without one 
>> you could make this podcast popular if the recordings are good.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Clem.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:
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>> [mailto:linuxmint-podcast-project-bounces+clement.lefebvre=ericsson.c
>> om@ lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Charles Olsen
>> Sent: 07 November 2008 13:45
>> To: Linux Mint Podcast List
>> Subject: [Linuxmint-podcast-project] Don't panic
>>
>> When I bought the domain and hosting, there was an option called 
>> Quick Blogcast. This provides a template for posting blogs and 
>> podcasts, including RSS feeds and searching.
>>
>> The templates are simple, and not something we'd want long-term, but 
>> by getting this option we have a site where we can start posting 
>> podcasts NOW. You can see the design now at www.mintcast.org.
>>
>> It's clean, simple, and ready to go. I intend to post some test 
>> recordings this weekend, so that we can test that everything is 
>> working the way we need it to. If the tests go well, we can start 
>> posting podcasts straight away.
>>
>> This is just something to get us going. I think we can do much 
>> better, but now we can go ahead and get started while we're working 
>> out our real site design.
>>
>> Charles
>>
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