Wanted: native English speaker for Passenger (mod_rails) screencast
I have good news and bad news.
Let’s start with the good news. Passenger (mod_rails) is almost ready for release. The code is as good as done (actually, it has been as good as done for well over a week now). The website is almost done. We’re just awaiting final test results from remaining beta testers.
The bad news: lots of people have commented about our current screencast, in particular about the now-infamous “scary green hand”. 
Being the perfectionists that we are, we’d like to redo the screencast before we release Passenger. Neither Ninh nor I are native English speakers, so we’re looking for a native English speaker who can help us with the voice-over part of the screencast. Preferably, someone with enough ‘gravitas’ in their voice, or in the case of a female voice, the ‘kindness’ should come out dripping from out of our audio speakers.
Would you like to volunteer? If so, please provide us with an audio sample. You can do this by either replying in this post, or by emailing us at “hongli at plan99 dot net” or “ninh dot bui at gmail dot com”! Thanks in advance.
Roob said,
March 29, 2008 @ 7:13 pm
maybe geoffrey grosenbrach is the man you need! just listen to his peepcode screencasts!
Taylor Redden said,
March 29, 2008 @ 7:43 pm
I nominate Ryan Bates. I love listening to him speak on his screencasts at http://www.railscasts.com
johnson said,
March 29, 2008 @ 7:50 pm
Ryan Bates +1
Ryan Bates said,
March 30, 2008 @ 12:55 am
Passenger looks great, well done! I’ll email you so we can discuss the details about doing a screencast.
Sam Figueroa said,
March 30, 2008 @ 11:37 am
Hi Guys,
I’ve sent you an email with a sample. Let me know if you need my help.
Ninh said,
March 30, 2008 @ 7:11 pm
Hi Sam, Ryan,
Check your mail
and thanks in advance to both of you 
Ninh’s Weblog » Blog Archive » Passenger and The Road to Railsconf 2008 said,
March 31, 2008 @ 8:46 am
[...] we want to thank all the people for submitting a voice sample for the new Passenger screencast we’re planning on making. [...]
Frank said,
March 31, 2008 @ 2:38 pm
Why don’t you just get the guy at http://railscasts.com/ to do it? He does a really great job explaining things and already has the infrastructure setup
Frank said,
March 31, 2008 @ 2:39 pm
Oh. Should have read the other posts first.
+1 for Ryan Bates
Harlan Crystal said,
April 11, 2008 @ 11:53 pm
I actually missed the “scary green hand” screencast. It sounds awesome. Is it still available anywhere?
Hongli said,
April 12, 2008 @ 12:10 am
Hi Harlan. Yeah it’s still available, good thing we haven’t deleted it yet.
http://www.modrails.com/videos/phusion_passenger_preview.mov