phpBB Weekly

Hello everyone,

After having horrible problems with Skypecasts that made even TalkShoe look like the utopia of live podcasting, we are going to be starting phpBB Weekly #038 live on TalkShoe again. Please feel free to join us in the usual manner.
–Douglas Bell

Per my last post on Sunday, David and I have decided to test out an episode on a new service from Skype called Skypecasts in the hopes that it will be a more viable and reliable service than TalkShoe. Again, this will primarily be a test, and we will decide after the fact whether we want to permanently move our show to Skype’s new network.

So, if you want to be here on Saturday, what do you need to do? Well, on Saturday, the phpBB Weekly Skypecasts page will have a “Join this Skypecast” link. You will need to have a Skype account and have downloaded the latest version of Skype for this to work.

Skypecasts does not include a chat room, so we will be congregating on irc.freenode.net in the #phpbb-weekly channel. I will also try to keep my eyes on the Star Trek Guide chatbox as well.

We will not be participating in the TalkShoe Live! chat room, however as a courtesy to our regular TalkShoe streamers, I will try to hook the Skypecasts call in with TalkShoe so that you can listen to the call through TalkShoe’s live stream. Of course, this assumes that TalkShoe cooperates, I’m able to get Skypecasts to connect to the TalkShoe phone number, and I’m only guaranteeing that we will do this for this particular episode.

Also, unless there’s some hidden button or setting that I can’t find until David points me to it, Skypecasts is really nothing more than a public Skype conference call, which means that if you call in, you will be live immediately. Therefore, please make my life so much easier by calling in with headphones in order to prevent echo and background noise, otherwise, I’ll have to stop what I’m saying to scroll through the list and find out who’s making the gossip in order to mute them. I don’t know, if we end up using Skypecasts, we may end up having to hire someone to be an ad hoc call screener. :/

Have any questions about this Saturday’s setup? Leave a note in the comments below or go to the phpBB Weekly forum topic. Also, for those of you who do participate in the show live, we will be asking you to post your feedback in the phpBB Weekly forum (with a feedback link to be announced during the show) to help us decide if we want to make the switch.

Again, thank you for working with us as we evaluate this transition. Going through these growing pains now will help us make phpBB Weekly a better show in the future.

Update 11/10: The link above has been updated, and the old link is no longer valid. Please note the new link.

Sorry folks, but apparently TalkShoe is having some kind of issues right now that is preventing us from connecting to them. However, since David has to catch a flight in 2 hours, he and I are going to go ahead and record the episode ourselves over Skype. I wish to apologize to any of you who were hoping to call in this morning. I have reported the problem to TalkShoe and they’ll hopefully get back to me on what’s going on, however we’re going to have to skip the live callers this morning.

If you had a question that you really wanted to ask, you can e-mail it in and I’ll be checking the e-mails while we record the show. Get it in within the next hour to make sure that I’ll get it in time.

Hello everyone,

Due to popular demand, and in the hopes of not distracting the topics in phpBB’s IRC channels, I have now setup a #phpbb-weekly IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. This channel is intended for “after-hours” phpBB Weekly discussion, it does not replace the chatroom in TalkShoe during the show. (Besides, wouldn’t it be cooler for you to call in?)

Today, partly for the MOD Authors Convention, we will be having an hour-long pre-show for phpBB Weekly starting in a few minutes. The actual recording doesn’t begin until the normal time, of course. Feel free to join in if you want!

Thanks for listening!
–Douglas Bell