We both join “the studio” and have a pre-racket chat where we get to know each other
We hit record and have 9 minutes to explore the topic we’ve agreed to discuss
We stop recording, keep chatting and have a natural conversation about anything
Those three parts make for an amazing connection with someone in the community. I’m very grateful for that!
Now what’s very cool is to see a recent wave of testing folks join Racket. And soon – if not already – each of those people will have 10 followers to allow them to start recording Rackets with each other.
So would you be interested in a monthly challenge to see what conversations we could start?
Connect and Racket with as many testing folks and explore as many topics as you like. Perhaps it’s eventually useful to narrow down on specific set of topics each month but I’m conscious of not racing ahead and seeing if there’s a good amount of people up for experimenting with this it’s simplest form.
I also imagine some sort of evolving mind map to visualise who has created a “Racket” with whom and on what topic. I think a visual representation of our connections and conversations would be interesting.
I think my head might explode with the energy of everyone who is up for this! Amazing. I’ve gone on a follow mission for those who have joined since I posted this.
Hooray, @hannahp ! And welcome to posting on The Club. It’s incredibly cool that you are here. I have fond memories of our chats (and your artwork) during the days of “Tuesday Night Testing”.
I’ve found the site works on my phone so plan to post one most days on one of my daily walks (I try to do before and after work each day). If it wasn’t for that time built in, I’d definitely find it more difficult to post regularly!
I’m just starting to get involved on Racket (recorded my first one today!) and am really enjoying using it as a platform. Part of me wishes that our Racket profiles could have personalised RSS feeds so that we could follow/subscribe from wherever we consume our podcasts, but I totally understand Racket wanting to keep people on their site (and while it’s as clean a site as it is now, I’ve no real need to go elsewhere).
@kristof I’m going to aim for daily posts, mostly so that I can see if it’s achievable. I already spend 1-2hrs a month recording for Testers’ Island Discs (plus probably at least 3-4 hours of pre- and post-episode planning, write-ups, etc) so I’m hoping that, by comparison, these short (and mostly unplanned) recordings should feel like a breeze. I look forward to proving myself wrong
Would love to jump onto someone else’s stream for a chat sometime!
So would you be interested in a monthly challenge to see what conversations we could start?
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Thanks for linking me. Finally got through the first racket, gonna try and post almost daily
Was this a tester at work?