Re: Community interviews

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Oliver Propst <oliver propst gmail com> wrote:
> Hi, everybody sorry for running from the meeting today.
>
> I spoke to Allan at FOSDEM about doing a series of interviews with community
> members as a way of letting people get know us better and our thoughts about
> the current sate of GNOME, thus maybe decease the barrier for new new
> contributors as well as a statement that we are passionate about the
> project.

This seems like a lot like the video interviews that Tiffany did at
GUADEC.  I don't really want to lose that work either.. can we find
some way to use both?

sri

> I had the following questions in mind:
>
> Can you introduce yourself ?
> How did you got involved the GNOME community?
> What excite you about the GNOME project ?
> How would you describe the current state of GNOME?
> 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?
> 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?
> 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?
>
> Diego have done a fantastic proposal for the annual report [1]. He suggested
> that the report should be largely focused on the people in the community, in
> that context I see a interview serie as a perfect fit. I will elaborate
> further with Diego and rest of the annual report team about this.
>
> What do you other thinks of the questions, do they work as starting point?
>
> 1
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/engagement-list/2014-February/msg00018.html
>
> --
> -mvh Oliver Propst
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