A podcast by Drupallers that has nothing to do with Drupal? What?

This is what happens when you leave me home alone on a Friday night in New York City. I start proposing crazy shit. So, Drupal is a pretty unique open source project in the sense that it has this community of individuals around it who are very passionate people. They’re passionate about Drupal itself, they’re passionate about other things too… family, community, art, politics to name a few things that I’ve seen Drupal folk be passionate and excited about.

One of the things that I absolutely love about Drupalcon is what happens socially. Sure, we’ve all gathered to talk about hooks and theme functions during the day, but invariably we end up talking about things that are important to us… about our families, about politics, about music and the arts, about video games, about love, about philosophy… and one of the things that’s so beautiful is I get to talk about other stuff with people who I don’t have to explain what this Drupal thing is and why it’s such a big part of my life. This is something I found I missed a lot in between Drupalcons.

How do we keep the spirit of Drupalcon alive year round?

For the most part, we do this with various sorts of meetup structures…. whether that be something informal like Worldwide Drupal Happy Hour, monthly Drupal meetups or DrupalCamps. These are all excellent things to have as a community, but they’re a little limited by geography. Not everybody lives near a city that has a regular meetup. I was thinking about ways to bring that spirit of getting to know each other and lighthearted fun and intelligent discussion into an online space. It’s at least been my experience that sometimes the only thing I talk to Drupal people about online is Drupal.

So, here’s what I’m thinking… either a podcast or a video cast, but I’m thinking a podcast because it’s easier to patch together audio from multiple locations that way… a host with two guests, everyone brings with them an idea or two of things to talk about… a current event, a thought about something, a funny joke, whatever… and we sit and have an intelligent discussion about these things. Different people every episode. The whole purpose is to get to know people in the community.

Thoughts? Feedback? I don’t really want to invest any time into it if there isn’t an interest in the idea obviously.