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Contribution Guide

How to add a new podcast to the list

Please feel free to open a pull request if you know of a German tech podcast that is not mentioned here.
If you're in doubt if a particular podcast is a good fit for the list, don't open an issue, but create a pull request right away because that's easier to handle. Thanks! 馃槂

Criteria to be accepted

Each podcast on the list should adhere to the following criteria

  • is a podcast 馃槂
  • is published using a RSS feed and is not behind a paywall
  • published in German 馃嚛馃嚜 馃嚘馃嚬 馃嚚馃嚟
  • has published at least 3 consecutive episodes
  • is at least 2 months old
  • majority of content is tech (tech context should be clearly visible and more than 60% of all episodes)
  • reasonable audio quality
  • is still active (new episode published within two months) or has timeless/relevant content (e.g. a news episode won't be relevant months later)

Podcasts can be removed from the list if a criteria is no longer met.

What is tech in this context?

When it deals with things like ...

  • Software, hardware, data science, Artificial intelligence (AI), user interface (UI)/user experience (UX), architecture, algorithms, security
  • Dev culture, team culture of tech/product teams
  • Worklife of devs and tech people (e.g. coping with stress, imposter, etc.)
  • Research of topics mentioned above
  • Tech influence/impact on society (Artificial intelligence (AI), security, etc)

What is not tech in this context?

When it deals (mainly) with things like ...

  • Economy/finance podcasts about tech companies
  • Tech topics explained for non-tech people

Format

鈿狅笍 The main README.md is a rendered version of the data. Do not edit it manually.

To add a new podcast, please create a .yml file in the /podcasts directory like /podcasts/<podcast-name>.yml. Feel free to check out a few other YAML files in that directory to see how it should look like.

Field Type Description
name string Name of the podcast
website string (url) Website (full URL) of the podcast
podcastIndexID integer ID of the podcast in the PodcastIndex
rssFeed string (url) RSS feed that is used to publish new podcast episodes
spotify string (url) Spotify link (full URL) of the podcast show
description string Description of the podcast (in German)
tags array (of strings) List of tags / focus themes
weekly_downloads_avg - Average weekly downloads (substructure)
weekly_downloads_avg.value integer Number of the average weekly downloads
weekly_downloads_avg.updated string (date) Date in format YYYY-MM-DD on when the "number of the average weekly downloads" was updated

Finally, create a pull request with all your changes.

Thanks for helping out! 馃帀