phpBB Weekly

Hello phpBB Weekly listeners,

If you haven’t noticed, it sort of has appeared recently that we’re dead or something. Well, that’s not exactly true, but I guess some explaining is in order.

You obviously know that David has been away for the past two and a half months due to work commitments that have taken time away from him. Micheal Cottingham (Techie-Micheal), and on a few occasions, Yuriy Rusko (Marshalrusty) have very graciously filled the gap and offered some good insights during the show in David’s absence.

Unfortunately, David hasn’t been the only busy one. I have been dealing with a number of commitments during April and May that have eaten up a number of Saturday mornings (namely, April 11, April 25, May 1, and this morning) from me, which is why we have not had episodes of phpBB Weekly during those times, and is also why it has taken so long to release the episodes of phpBB Weekly that we have recorded. I still need to get the episode from last Saturday edited and released!

We have also had some difficulty in that we have kind of grown accustomed to the significant number of major announcements that came out from the phpBB teams in 2008, and that frequency has somewhat dropped off in 2009. And so we’ve had a bit of a void in terms of coming up with our own content to fill up our episodes.

So what does this mean looking forward? Well, my understanding is that David will be rejoining the show within the next few weeks (yay!), and we’re going to be collectively looking at phpBB Weekly and determining what we want it to be looking forward. We will be considering some new ideas for content to discuss on the show, and may consider doing some thinking outside of the box as well. We also hope to reinvigorate our shows with some more guest interviews. (Did you know that we’ve only done one full-fledged guest interview in the past year? Remember back when we used to have guest interviews on like every third episode?) And I’m also considering the idea of putting together another fun little contest to do this summer. We’ll see how that goes…

Most important is that we want to get back to our roots: our community. We really want this podcast to reflect your interests, your questions, and what you want to know about phpBB. Therefore, please comment in this post or on our forum with any suggestions that you have about the content on phpBB Weekly and where you would like us to take this podcast as we move forward and revitalize our show.

A number of things in the future are uncertain, particularly for me, since I’m going to be moving east a couple of time zones in August. But what I do know is that as long as I am still able to produce this podcast and as long as we have interested people listening to the podcast, we will continue to keep this podcast going for you, the community. Thanks for your patience with us during these turbulent few months.
–Douglas Bell, phpBB Weekly Co-Host