Re: I suck

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi Emily,

This was for teh annual report - it went on the ideas page, at least, 
and I claimed it, so I believe it should still be in the annual report plan.

I'll happily forward everything on.

Cheers,
Dave.

On 05/30/2012 03:21 AM, Emily Gonyer wrote:
> Hey Dave,
>
> Before we choose, why don't we go over what you have, and decide which
> would be better/more practical at this point. I'd suggest either
> publishing what you have on the wiki or putting it in a google doc. Or
> you can simply send me what you have - whichever you prefer - and I/we
> can sort through it and see what we think would be best. If it ends up
> being too much work to do the magazine type feature you imagined for the
> annual report, perhaps another option would be to publish it as a
> special feature on gnome.org <http://gnome.org>.
>
> GNOME Journal has unfortunately floundered once again - I'm not entirely
> sure if it was ever updated to wordpress on gnome's servers, and I've
> never received any articles for it from anyone else :( At this point,
> I'm not sure a separate journal is practical, and lean more towards
> simply publishing material on gnome.org <http://gnome.org> as it becomes
> available, then saving it in an archive by month/yr. Though I am
> certainly open to other suggestions.
>
> Emily
>
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Dave Neary <dneary gnome org
> <mailto:dneary gnome org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     Yes, I suck.
>
>     Way back in (so long ago I don't even remember which month) I
>     interviewedd Marina about herself, her history in GNOME, her plans
>     for WSOP and more. It was a great interview, and she put lots of
>     time and effort into answering my questions, we did an IRC follow-up
>     that added lots of colour to it, and my plan was to take all that
>     material and do a really nice magazine-feature type interview,
>     rather than just Q&A.
>
>     Unfortunately, I never got around to it.
>
>     So, to prevent myself from being a road-block to having the
>     interview published in the annual report, I will remove myself from
>     the process. We have a few options:
>     * Print the Q&A which Marina answered in December and January as
>     they are (with grammar checks and what not)
>     * I can hand over Q&A and IRC logs, and let someone else have a go
>     at doing the nice magazine-feature style interview-article.
>
>     I believe I have previously sent everything in with a note "just in
>     case I don't get around to it", but I don't recall to whom I sent
>     the interview.
>
>     So - option A or option B? Emily, are you still guiding the Journal
>     through its difficult birthing? Would you care to choose for me?
>
>     Thanks! And sorry.
>     Dave.
>
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