SitePoint ForumCast: After Hours! We're Live!!

[mizwizzy]

Dear SitePoint Community!

It’s Official, we’re live! SitePoint ForumCast: After Hours!

The SitePoint Forumcast is a Community based "podcast style" project. It is fun, voluntary and for the Community. We deliver all the latest news and announcements, ranting segments, thread highlights, off topic segments and Q & A sessions to name but a few! After much hard work from all the team we are finally ready to get this project underway! We hope that you enjoy listening to our shows as much as we did in putting it all together! We will publish all upcoming shows exactly one month from the last publication so keep an eye out here in the News & Announcement Section for the next installment!

Many thanks to HQ for all their assistance, guidance and support throughout this project.

Enjoy the Show guys!
Nuria, Hazel & Mike
ForumCast Management Team

Meet the ForumCast Team:
Co Founders/Co Hosts: - Molona & Mizwizzy
ForumCast Management: - Molona, Mizwizzy & SpikeZ
Contributors including Manangement^: AlexDawson, Shaun(oftheDead), Bluedreamer, Raena, Kohoutek, C.Ankerstjerne, Jeffwalden

SitePoint ForumCast: After Hours! The Pilot - Episode #1 with your co-hosts Nuria & Hazel
Coming up on this month's show - we have a real treat in store for you guys! We rock out the podcast with a jam session plus we have a couple of interviews with some really mysterious and well known members on the Forums! We also have lots of mini segments for you which include the following

Episode Summary
* Introduction, General Chat & Forum News - Nuria, Hazel
* Jan MOTM Interview - Nuria, Hazel & winner - If you wish to contact Jeff (jeff.walden@gmail.com or Skype ID: walden.jeff)
* Jam Session Segment - Mike
* Q & A Segment - Shaun & mysterious guest! - If you wish to contact DT (Twitter @khaled_ouanes or via his website)
* Thread Highlight Segment - Alex

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Show Transcript & Links
For a full list of links mentioned in the show please visit:
http://www.delicious.com/sitepointforumcast/1
Full Audio Transcript - TranscriptEp1 (txt) TranscriptEp1 (rtf) TranscriptEp1 (doc)

Contact Information for this month’s Contributors
Nuria: Skype ID: SPMolona or via e-mail: molona@molonaesp.com
Hazel: Skype ID: spmizwizzy or via e-mail: mizwizzy@live.ie
Mike: Skype ID: spspikez or via e-mail: spike@refrsh.com
Shaun: Please PM me or contact me through my website
Alex: Contact via SP Profile or via my website

Thanks for listening guys, keep a look out next month for our next episode! Please feel free to contact us with your comments, suggestions or improvements we can make to the ForumCast by emailing sitepointforumcast@yahoo.com

ForumCast Theme Music
The theme music of our show is kindly provided by Jacqui Taylor.
Link: http://www.jacquitaylor.co.uk

[HAWK]

Yay you guys! That's awesome. Well done, I know how hard you've worked on this.

[mizwizzy]

Woohooo! Thanks Sarah, you've helped us so much with this project and of course the rest of the HQ Team, very exciting. Hope the Community will enjoy it

[Laneth]

This is going to be a lot of fun! I can't wait to get home and get this one!

(Ooh, look! I'm an enthusiast! Sorry, just noticed my little badge of rank *wipes tear* I'm so happy! *sob*)

[kohoutek]

Wohoooooooooohooooo! You guys are fantastic!

[HAWK]

(Ooh, look! I'm an enthusiast! Sorry, just noticed my little badge of rank *wipes tear* I'm so happy! *sob*)

Wow, if that makes you happy, imagine how you'll feel when you reach Renegade!

[molona]

It's been hard work to get here but now it is public... Mizwizzy, congratulations... This would have been much harder without your persistance and hard work.

Sarah, thanks for all the assistance. I'm sure that I will have to say this many times more in the future but it is still appreciate it.

[RetroNetro]

This was interesting. Very worldly. Neat to hear your voices. Good Job!!! Looking forward to the next episode.

[markbrown4]

Love Molona's accent

The interview is hilarious. Molona you are a comedic genius!

[Stomme poes]

Aren't there two Mikes going on? You should distinguish between spikemike and the other mike (bluedreamer? I forget who was mike).

[spikeZ]

Great effort guys, Hazel you are a star and thanks for staying up late to get this on!
Thanks Sarah for your help too!

Poes, I'm Mike - Rob is Bluedreamer

[ShayneTilley]

Congratulations on the pilot guys. Great to see this get some air time.

[molona]

Love Molona's accent

The interview is hilarious. Molona you are a comedic genius!

Give me time... there's a little clown inside of me ...

[mizwizzy]

Stomme - Rob just wishes he was another Mike *runs*

Thanks to everyone's kind comments Well done to everyone who stuck with the project, having faith and for all those who were soooo much fun to work with it's really exciting, we've had soo many laughs making it and I really can't wait til we get Ep. 2 rocking and rolling

[AndrewCooper]

We will publish all upcoming shows exactly one month from the last publication so keep an eye out here in the News & Announcement Section for the next installment!

I'll hold you to that promise!

You’re listening to the SitePoint ForumCast: After Hours! Episode 1 - The Pilot, For April 2010. Theme music for the show is kindly provided by Jacqui Tailor and Jack Waldenmayer of Music Bakery Publishing (BMI). Bandwidth and support for the show is provided by SitePoint, for the community, articles, books and more please visit "www dot SitePoint dot com". Enjoy the show!

Wow. I'm crossing my fingers trying to refrain from typing something I shouldn't!... ...Fingers...Don't dooo it!!

Wow...You're voice is beautiful! -dives into the Trident engine thinking no one will find him there-

Each month I will give you a backing track, all you have to do is record yourself jamming along to it.

What's the backing track? By jamming you mean singing along to it or...?

Now, Andrew Cooper wants to know are we getting overly excited about HTML5 and CSS3? Do you think it’s worth treading in the waters of these open standards or do you prefer to stand on the sidelines until they’re finalised. This is a particularly discussion because we talk about, among other things, whether the W3C should really be classed as a standard body. So, what do you think? Check out thread number 663848

Holy...! I didn't expect that! Haha I was so chuffed when you said my name hahaha It was a pretty interesting discussion though Lol.

Some great suggestions for reading / viewing / participating on though! I look forward to next months recommendations!

yeah, of course, Nuria. And it brings us on to inviting all the Sitepoint members who are listening at the moment, to send us on your comments and feedback, what would you like to see on the show, who would you like us to interview and why, are there any threads that we missed that you would like us to highlight? Please, let us know.

Well, I loved the whole 37 minutes and 10 seconds of it All of what was said was great, but the only thing that I found slightly off was the way that most of the content was said. It sounded more like you guys and girls were reading off a script (possibly the transcript and then recorded), but I'm sure it wasn't scripted first. I'm sure it's just because it was the first time you've done this and the next episode will be slightly more relaxed, at ease, and more informal in the way things are said. Maybe it's just me and my ears though! I've been blasting music off lately and it could just be my ears. Everything sounds fine...Just a little scripted. Hope that helps in some way though!

As for interviewing:

- Tommy Olsson
- Rudy Limeback
- Kevin Yank
- Alex Dawson
- Sarah Hawk Taylor
- Stephen Chapman
- Hazel / mizwizzy

And please don't make me give reasons!

Thanks to everyone's kind comments Well done to everyone who stuck with the project, having faith and for all those who were soooo much fun to work with it's really exciting, we've had soo many laughs making it and I really can't wait til we get Ep. 2 rocking and rolling

I can't wait either! Looking forward to next month now! Hehe

You all did a fantastic job!

Andrew Cooper

PS: Although it wasn't needed (because the sound quality was great) it was a godsend for me quoting people! I didn't expect it in three different formats but I'm glad you had it transcripted and formatted in Microsoft Word Great work to whoever was tasked with that!

[Datura]

Very nice indeed I love all the different accents. Good job guys

[mizwizzy]

Thanks guys - As for the scripted element - yeah, erm it's your ears Andrew ah, we will get better in time though no doubt!

@transcript format - I figured that not everyone had Word so I did the .rtf and .txt - if anyone else needs the transcript in another format please let us know

@interviewees - that's a great list Andrew thanks We will take note of that for the next Episode, I personally think Nuria should interview me though - immediately

Really glad you guys liked it

[AlexDawson]

I guess I'm a rock-star now, my voice has been broadcasted across the tubes

[Stomme poes]

And finally, the Jan member of the month interview!!

[molona]

And finally, the Jan member of the month interview!!

I knew someone would notice!

[Raffles]

A mixture of flirting and harsh critique there Nuria!

It got a lot better as it progressed, much more natural, especially once the interview got going. Great job for the first time! I think I prefer this format for the interview a lot more than just reading it, especially with Hazel's sarcastic quips (in that sexy Irish accent).

[Shaun(OfTheDead)]

Hey, just to add to the show notes;

If you'd like to visit my mystery guest's Twitter account, you can find him here; http://twitter.com/khaled_ouanes

His blog is at http://www.webscienceman.com .



Thanks a lot for all the positive feedback, everybody.

If anyone has anything more critical to add, and they wish to not post it in this thread, you're welcome to PM me.



And yes, I think we all agree mizwizzy's voice is sexy!

[Paul O'B]

Great job and great fun - well done