[WXBH-Discuss] Radio Meeting Today at 4 p.m.

[John Hicks]

Yes. Let's meet at 4 p.m. at the Brick House. (The concert is scheduled 
for 5, but usually takes a while to get set up and going.)

--John

radical eclectic wrote:
> is earlier better for radio meeting today?
>
> */John Hicks <johnhicks at wxbh.org>/* wrote:
>
>     James--
>
>     I know of your interest and we'd love to have you involved. Give
>     me a call and we'll talk about the possibilities!
>
>     And to the rest of you on the list: It's an exciting time as
>     everything seems to be happening at once! Now is the time to get
>     involved.
>
>     The current governing structure may seem a little complicated.
>     There's a committee of the Brick House board of directors whose
>     job has been to appoint a governing board for the radio. Although
>     that governing board is already in place, it has been rather
>     inactive. I hope and believe that it will become more active and
>     that we will be adding to that board over time and will be drawing
>     from those who are actively involved in the radio project (or the
>     radio "collective" as we like to say at the Brick House).
>
>     Most of the actual work and effort, of course, is not done at
>     board meetings. and, thus far, most of it has fallen on the
>     shoulders of just a few individuals. Here's a quick list of what
>     needs to be done:
>
>     1. Operation and monitoring. Right now most everything is
>     automated (thanks to computers and the Internet), but is subject
>     to hiccups that require manual intervention. Since we don't have a
>     full-time station manager, we need a crew of people who monitor
>     the stream and the broadcast to alert us when a hiccup occurs. And
>     we need one or two technically oriented folks who can correct such
>     hiccups. (The skillset right now is Ubuntu Linux crontab, shell
>     scripts, mpd playlists, ssh, screen, etc. all of which I'll be
>     happy to teach you.)
>
>     2. Scheduling. We published a tentative schedule here a couple of
>     weeks ago (http://scheduler.wxbh.org/schedule.html), but that is
>     very crude. It is nothing more than the Pacifica feed superimposed
>     over the WRFN (Nashville) schedule. We need to do a better job of
>     scheduling our local content in a consistent manner. And we can
>     also bolter the schedule with other syndicated programs. And then
>     we need to publish that schedule for all the world to see.
>
>     3. Building a studio. We are finally free to go ahead and install
>     a studio at the Brick House. The space has been reserved for us
>     all along. There is a motley assortment of audio equipment. We
>     need to rig up a simple setup with a microphone or two so we can
>     record shows and/or broadcast them live. We probably will then
>     want to do a little soundproofing. And for the next couple of
>     months, we could really really use some way of air conditioning
>     the space. (Ideas are solicited. I've been wracking my brain to
>     figure out how we could maybe jury-rig two or three window units
>     into a makeshift forced air system, for example.)
>
>     4. Programming. Yes, we need people to produce radio programs. You
>     can do it right now by recording onto a computer or a digital
>     recorder. And once we get the studio ready, you should be able to
>     just show up and start talking (or playing the kazoo or whatever
>     it is you want to do), so we really need that studio.
>
>     5. Promotion. We need to start letting the world know that we are
>     on the air (and on the Internet) and soliciting listeners and
>     programmers. This is especially true in our primary coverage area
>     (Fern Creek, Buechel, etc.) where we have not done much publicizing.
>
>     6. Membership and underwriting. We need to get a program into
>     place to start generating some modest revenue.
>
>     Along the way we want to be working toward a structure that keeps
>     the radio (and the entire organization) grounded in some solid
>     principles and not vulnerable to power struggles that would narrow
>     the range of viewpoints that can be expressed. We need to assemble
>     a solid crew of individuals who believe in free speech, the free
>     marketplace of ideas, the importance of local community, and the
>     importance of free and open communication among all people within
>     that community. Come and help build a new institution that we can
>     all be proud of!
>
>     Our radio collective meetings have been at 6 p.m on Sundays at the
>     Brick House. (However I see there is a concert scheduled at 5 p.m.
>     at the Brick House, so we may have to reschedule this week.) But
>     even if you can't make the meetings, you can still get involved.
>     Most of the work is not done at the meetings.
>
>     Feel free to speak up on this list or to call me directly with
>     your ideas and/or offers of help.
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     --John Hicks
>     Phone: 502-213-0428
>
>     James Kelley wrote:
>>     John,
>>      
>>          Considering I have interest in this, I might want to serve. 
>>     The real question is not motivation, but the ability to give that
>>     would be needed.  Could you tell me what the requirements would
>>     be, so that I can decide if I would be able to live up to the
>>     commitment?
>>
>>      
>>     On 7/18/07, *John Hicks* <johnhicks at gulfbridge.net
>>     <mailto:johnhicks at gulfbridge.net>> wrote:
>>
>>         Although the duties of the Brycc House board's radio
>>         committee were
>>         completed by the appointment of the radio governing board, as
>>         Brycc
>>         House board chairman I must take note of the fact that two of
>>         the four
>>         members of that committee have now resigned.
>>
>>         As a standing committee of the Brycc House board, the radio
>>         committee
>>         was due to be reappointed after our annual meeting (which has
>>         been
>>         postponed until next month).
>>
>>         Until that meeting, I do hereby appoint the entire board of
>>         directors of
>>         Brycc House Inc. to serve as the radio committee. I don't see
>>         that they
>>         have any duties to perform, but I believe we should have a full
>>         committee in place just in case.
>>
>>         The radio governing board remains in place, although they
>>         haven't met
>>         lately. Let's wait a few days until the dust settles and then
>>         we can
>>         call a meeting of that board and see where to go from here.
>>
>>         Thanks,
>>
>>         John Hicks
>>         Chairman, Board of Directors, Brycc House Inc.
>>
-- 

John Hicks

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