On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Ross Gardler <[email protected]>wrote:
> This discussion seems to have stalled, that's a shame it was a good > idea and I saw a few people willing to take on the work. > > FWIW, I did meetup with Dave Fisher in San Francisco recently. We had a great cup of SF coffee, and spent some time together discussing his participation and contributions in the project. I've now got to shape my notes up into a draft and get it back to Dave for some further polishing, then I'll be able to get it posted on list here for folks to review. > My suggestion is for those wanting to try this out to just do it. It > doesn't need to be perfect or meet the full and active approval of the > PPMC. Just as long as it is something and nobody objects. > > OK, thanks this helps. I was perhaps being too concerned with process, and that slowed me down a bit. > I've tried to answer some of Nancy's questions below... > > On 16 February 2012 20:55, Nancy K <[email protected]> wrote: > > Victims: > > * Is there a database of comments from development contributor > and other contributors that we can use? If so, we could start at the top > and approach the name of one who posted the most in the last year or so. > We could > > work our way down the list. They can always say 'not now...' or 'no way'! > > I'm not sure what you mean by "comments from development contributor", > but I think this might be over thinking it. There are a few candidates > who self identified in this thread already, just pick on them and > start asking questions. > > You also have the recent thread about who has experience in OOo. This > gave lots of quick bio's that could be used to add a little flavour to > each of the interviews. I'm guessing since these people were willing > to post their OOo bio to this list they would be willing to be > interviewed. > > However, be careful not to limit it to just people who've been around > for some time. Newcomers are just as important for different reasons. > > My feeling is that once someone has the ball rolling others will step > forwards. > > > * I like Rob's list of questions for starters - any more > questions that would help in an interview? > > I suggest the more open the question the more interesting and varied > the interviews will be. Things like "Why do you think ODF is > important?" and "Why is AOO valuable to the ODF ecosystem?". > > I hope that you will avoid any potentially leading questions that > places AOO in competition with other projects in the ODF space > (although individuals are, of course, free to answer the open > questions in any way they want - but lets try to be constructive). > > > * Is there a place set up to post the results? > > I'd suggest collating (even conducting) the raw interviews on the > wiki. Then when you have 2-3 interesting and related comments from new > people write up a blog post about that topic. > > > * Louis - you had experience doing this before, do you suggest > emails, skype - free trials of Adobe Connect - anything helpful to use in > an interview? > > I'm not Louis, but... > > Perhaps email is better for most, it is asynchronous and gives time to > consider the responses fully (especially important to those who are > not native English speakers). > > It would be good to have some audio interviews about AOO too, but the > best vehicle for that is probably via Feathercast, see > http://feathercast.apache.org/ (if anyone wants to conduct a > feathercast interview let me know) > > Ross > > > > Nancy > > > > Nancy Web Design > > Free 24 hour pass to lynda.com. > > Video courses on SEO, CMS, > > Design and Software Courses > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Rob Weir <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 7:35 PM > > Subject: Re: Blog idea: interviews with AOO developers > > > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Nancy K <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Rob, I offered to interview others since I have not done anything > helpful to the project yet. I am still avialable - I guess I hid my offer > between ideas on my last post. > >> > > > > Hi Nancy, > > > > This is good. We have three people willing to do interviews. Now we > > just need a willing victim, or two or three. Plan B is we all > > interview each other ;-) > > > > -Rob > > > >> > >> Nancy > >> > >> Nancy Web Design > >> Free 24 hour pass to lynda.com. > >> Video courses on SEO, CMS, > >> Design and Software Courses > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> ________________________________ > >> From: Rob Weir <[email protected]> > >> To: [email protected] > >> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 2:19 PM > >> Subject: Re: Blog idea: interviews with AOO developers > >> > >> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Donald Harbison <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> On Wednesday, February 15, 2012, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> Something like this: > >>>>> > >>>>> 1. Email interview > > off-list with an AOO contributor. Questions like: > >>>>> tell us about yourself, where you live, what you do for a living. > >>>>> What is your development machine? How did you start working with > >>>>> OpenOffice? Why? What is your favorite contribution? What other > >>>>> OSS projects do you work with? Stuff > >> like that. > >>>>> > >>>>> 2. Interview might take several exchanges via email, to follow up on > >>>>> questions. Interviewer then assembles this into a draft, reviews > with > >>>>> interviewee. > >>>>> > >>>>> 3. Interviewer then posts as a blog post, hopefully with a photograph > >>>>> of the interviewee. > >>>>> > >>>>> We have a lot of interesting people working on this project. So I > >>>>> think we could have a > > lot of interesting posts from this. > >>>>> > >>>>> Any volunteers to be interviewed? Any volunteers to do the > interviewing? > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> So far, all who commented think this is a great idea, not no one wants > >>>> to volunteer. > >>> I'll happily volunteer. > >>> > >> > >> OK. Maybe that will be enough of an incentive (or threat). If no one > >> else volunteers to be interviewed, I > >> will interview Don for the blog, > >> or worse, he will interview me ;-) > >> > >> -Rob > >> > >>>> I'm willing to do the interviewing if someone is willing to be > >>>> interviewed. Otherwise I'll just drop it. The idea dies here. > >>>> > >>>> -Rob > >>>> > >>>>> I'll volunteer to help, of course. > >>>>> > >>>>> -Rob > >>>> > > > > -- > Ross Gardler (@rgardler) > Programme Leader (Open Development) > OpenDirective http://opendirective.com >
