The main foodfightshow is a panel show modeled after the ruby rogues. More than 5 participants is difficult to handle, or at least each individual participant has much less opportunity to talk.
- To summarize important development in Chef community on ML, chat, conferences for busy people who can't necessarily be there or read the ML everyday
- For fun!
- Discuss w/ really smart people about subjects that are of interest operations professionals
- Help people in community feel like they “know” prominent community members
- Introduce Chef to new users
- To talk about religion, sex or politics
- discuss consumer technology, other shows do that better
- To hate on Microsoft or other proprietary technology
- To promote desktop linux
In general, you should try to minimize the time you spend planning an episode. Time spent episode planning takes away from time spent recording.
- Round up some prospective guests, tell each of them to wear a headset during recording and mute their built-in audio
- If you have multiple participants, use doodle.com to find a suitable time.
- Use Foodfightshow calendar to send an invite w/ the recording date we have a good invitation template to which you'll need to add a link to show notes.
- Notify participants w/ the url for the google hangout about 10 mins beforehand, remind them to use a headset and mute built-in audio
- Send a tweet notifying our fans of the episode
- log on to irc #foodfightshow ahead of the episode. We get a lot of questions from there.
- Warn participants that the show will be recorded live and we can't edit the video on youtube.
- Tell everyone when u go on air
- Keep the main discussion to 1 hour, but picks section can go over one hour
- Tell everyone when you go off air
- Post-production
- create stub of show notes w/link to youtube video and publish
- download the video from youtube
- strip the audio using screenflow or ffmpeg
- put together show notes using the foodfight/foodfightshow.github.com repo
- Put the first 15 seconds of the foodfight theme song at the beginning of the show and again at the end
- remove blank spots and curse words from audio
- upload to libsyn.com
- grab the url to the mp3 download
- add mp3 download url to show notes and push
- tweet that show now available
- Chef news - less than 5 mins about recent events in chef community
- Guest intros
- Topic Discussion
- Picks
- Goodbye
- send in cookbook news
- subscribe to newsletter
- thank guests
- Use a USB headset, not one w/ analog connector, you'll thank me later
- Mute the internal audio and microphone on your laptop
- Please move to a quiet room for the show recording
- Don't be shy. This is an amateur operation, share your dumb jokes
- Be opinionated, that's why we invite you on the show
- Family-friendly, keep it G-rated
- Don't talk about politics, religion, your sexual exploits. 50% will disagree w/ you and the other 50% won't care.
- Don't trash other open-source projects
- Don't trash Microsoft
Show License: CC-BY 3.0
This is a much shorter, focused show. Typically it will only have two participants. It is intended to focus on specific tools and practices. Anyone can produce a DevOps delicacy. These shows will typically run 30 minutes.