Thanks for the feedback Diego, I guess we will continue to collaborate on this.
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 3:04 AM, Diego Escalante Urrelo <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey Oliver, > > This is a great idea. These things help a lot, you are on the right track. > > Even if these doesn't get (re)used in the report, there's lots of value in > it by itself. It could easily tie into the stream of upcoming publications. > > Have you thought of a theme to hold the series together? Like: "5 minutes > with <contributor>", or formatting these interviews in a very unique > template (maybe a featured blog in blogs.gnome.org?). Food for thought! > > You are in the right track to produce a very strong series ;-). Some > inline comments to the questions: > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Oliver Propst <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Can you introduce yourself ? >> > > Perhaps you can ask this in the interview, but rearrange it as your lead > text for the edited interview. > That way the audience can see it's not "just a questionnaire". > > >> How did you got involved the GNOME community? >> What excite you about the GNOME project ? >> How would you describe the current state of GNOME? >> > > Maybe it could be a more specific question that ties with the next: > "What's your favorite thing about GNOME right now? (maybe) What's your > least favorite?" > > >> What are biggest challenges GNOME are facing in your opinion? >> If you try to be more specific what do you think is the most challenging >> thing you find as a >> GNOME contributer, what do you think keeps more people from contributing? >> > > Perhaps go for something more positive like: "If you could improve > something for new contributors (like you once were), what would it be?". > Maybe phrase it like "What would you have liked that people told you when > you started?". Less about the challenge, more about the solution. > > >> In recent times the question of GNOME's roll in the greater free software >> have been heavily discussed, what are your take about the situation, what >> role do you think GNOME should play in the greater free software ecosystem? >> > > "Recently, GNOME's role and importance in the Free Software world has been > heavily discussed, what do you think is GNOME role?" My wording is bad, but > my point is that let's try not to sound like this is a heavy question. Also > let's avoid unwillingly validating perceptions like "GNOME is dead" :-p. > > >> If you could chose one specific area in which the GNOME project could >> improve what >> would that be? >> Can you tell one thing about yourslelf that that most people don't know >> about you? >> > > Nice one, a more playful phrasing could give it more of a "closing charm". > You can ask a followup question to this one and include the more complete > answer in the edited version. I suspect many people would answer "I play > violin" and stop at that, but the interesting thing is know where, why, > what; all the details ;-). > > Again: this is great Oliver. Rock on! > > Diego > -- -mvh Oliver Propst
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