petepo's blog

Traditionally the Alliance for Community Media's leadership and main membership base has been a heavy mix of community media centermanagement, some of their direct reports, and a nod to producers. At the centers I have worked at in the past staff have considered ACM participation as something that their managers or executive directors do. Once in a while an action item email is sent out to staff and sometimes even that email is blasted out to the producer pool.

I was recently challenged to write about what I would love to see in my perfect community media center. I'm pretty far away from a complete vision that could be written about in an operational form but I know what I want. I figured I'd sit down with a beer or two and try to get it out after a couple of weeks of mulling it over.

Let's start, in the traditional internet form, with what I don't want - what I don't like about community media centers I've worked with.

I will be presenting at the National Alliance for Community Media Conference on how and why community media centers need to embrace and open source and move away from iCable Access centers revolving around apple software next week. Part of this presentation will be demonstrating what I believe to be a good start on a community media linux distribution. Below is a step-by-step for new users to create what I have found to be the best multimedia setup at this point on my personal computer.