Fedora Insight podcast integration idea

[Pascal Calarco]

On 06/07/2011 04:21 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 08:19:52PM +0200, Peter Borsa wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Let me try this again. Here are two use case which I imagined, I hope
>> it will helpful. If you have any use case, please, tell me.
>>
>> * General users / Fedora contributors
>>
>>    * I want to find all podcasts about Fedora.
>>
>>    RIGHT NOW: There are some podcasts on the different places like
>> wiki. (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F11_release_podcasts)
>>    These podcasts are hard to find.
>>
>>    SHINY FUTURE: I would like to see a list where I can find all
>> podcasts that are recorded, can sort those by name, date etc-etc.
> This seems like a medium or huge win, because we really have nothing
> serving this purpose currently.
>
>>    * I want to listen to those podcasts on the page.
>>
>>    RIGHT NOW: I can not listen to those because there is a link to the
>> file(mp3, ogg). If I do not have a browser plugin I can not play it in
>> the browser.
>>
>>    SHINY FUTURE: I would like to use a flash player to listen to those
>> podcasts, create a playlist.
> This seems like a small win to me, because most browsers do have
> plugin support for either free (Ogg Vorbis) or non-free (MP3) formats.
> Obviously we would want to provide the free format, but have some sort
> of graceful fallback so people who are trying to find out more about
> Fedora using a user-hostile platform (without free codec support) can
> still do so.  The mechanics of that aren't important right now, we can
> debate that part later if needed.
>
> What do people think about these estimates?
>
 From my perspective, I agree with trying to organize content first, and 
then work on improving the user experience vis-a-vis format.  +1

   - pascal