Announcing KDE TeaTime - weekly KDE video podcast

KDE TeaTime (KTT) is a new video podcast ran by a bunch of KDE developers who at some point decided to make their private ramblings and discussions in the open just like the software they develop.

The content of KTT is going to be different each time but always related to KDE. Each time we set a main topic and we'll be discussing live about all things around it, so you can expect rants, personal feelings, ideas not published anywhere and general crapiness :) Please note that our expressed opinions are not always necessarily the opinions of the KDE community and/or KDE e.V.  We're still learning how to do the stuff properly, but in the near future once we get the hang of it, we want to have some kind of live interaction with listeners, inviting guests for interviews, showing cool stuff from our desktop and so on.

Right now we're using Google Hangouts for KTT. We decided for that because Hangouts can be streamed live on YouTube, so everyone can watch it live without needing anything special (besides Flash, but hey, everyone watches YouTube) and right after the Hangout is finished, it is automatically uploaded to the YouTube channel. In other words - we can focus purely on the podcast and not be bothered with setting up our own (streaming) software, saving the stream, uploading to YouTube etc. Hangouts get us all this for free.

We chose the format to be around 25 minutes for one episode and we want to do one episode per week. We'll be announcing the streaming times on our social media plethora - Google+, Facebook page, Twitter, Identi.ca or YouTube. Like us, follow us, give us comments, ideas, constructive criticism and cookies. If there will be big enough desire, we might consider providing the podcast as mp3s as well.

The first episode was already recorded last week, the topic was 3rd party KDE apps and you can watch it on YouTube or down below.

 

Enjoy and spread the word :)

 

Comments

[Mary Tee]

Thanks for starting KDE Tea Time podcast! It was interesting listening to your perspectives on KDE applications. One of my favorite is Kdenlive.

I will be sure to mention KDE Tea Time during my "KDE Korner" segment on Sunday Morning Linux Review.

Keep up the good work, guys.

[Marty]

@Mary Tee - Awesome, thanks a lot! Also thanks for letting us know about SMLR, looking forward to get home and watch/listen to you guys :)

[Gugelplus Apesta]

There is already a KDE application named KTeaTime (very similar). This could potentially be confusing when searching the web, and the like.

I hope that you can change the name, since is somewhat impolite to use a name already in use by others.

Thanks.

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

I still haven't found the time to watch the complete first episode, but what I've seen so far was pretty nice :)

Btw: You don't need flash to watch Youtube, that's the cool thing about it.
Just visit http://youtube.com/html5 , join the HTML5 trial and you're set, no flash needed anymore :)

[Mschlander.wordpress.com]

Kdenlive and Smb4K are actually developed on the KDE infrastructure these days, albeit they're not part of KDE SC of course. There's been quite a few formerly 3rd party applications moving to KDE infrastructure in the last years (krusader, smb4k, kdenlive, simon, maybe more).

The only 3rd party KDE applications I can think of on my system are synaptiks and kshutdown - and the YaWP plasmoid. All very nice.

Also I'd like to point out that among the many disadvantages of developing stuff outside the KDE infrastructure is that they cannot make use of the excellent KDE translators ;-)

[Mschlander.wordpress.com]

I forgot Bangarang in my list above.

[Mschlander.wordpress.com]

Crap, I also forgot the most important thing I have from kde-apps.org - Danish Radio Streams Service Amarok script which I maintain myself :-|

[Marty]

@Gugelplus Apesta - You're right. We will think of a new name.

@Thomas Pfeiffer - True, I'm just not sure if the live streaming is also available in html5, let us know when we'll be on air ;)

@Mschlander - Good points! Thanks :) Apparently (and awkwardly) we all completely forgot Yakuake, which is also a 3rd party KDE app. Interestingly none of us had thought about it even if it is one of the most used apps by us.

[Ian Monroe]

@Marty booo, don't change the name. I assumed the name was a nice hat tip to ole KTeaTime.

Yakuake is part of extragear, it's not a 3rd party app at all.

[Valorie Zimmerman]

This was great, and I'm going to watch all the TeaTimes. I'm glad you kept the name. :-)

I would love it if each of you would list, here in the comments, the names of the applications you use, and perhaps the URLs in KDE-Apps. Have any of you contacted the developers of the apps you use, to see why they have not gotten their apps into Extragear? It seems like the personal approach might work the best.

Valorie