Re: Need writers/interviewers for Issue 24, "People of GNOME"

[Jim Campbell <jwcampbell gmail com>]

Hi All,

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah panix com> wrote:

On 05/10/2011 02:34 AM, Jim Campbell wrote:

Hi Sumana,

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Sumana Harihareswara<sumanah panix com>wrote:

On 05/05/2011 09:25 PM, Jim Campbell wrote:

Hi All,

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Sumana Harihareswara<sumanah panix com

wrote:

 My suggested plan for the next two issues:

No. 24, "People of GNOME," articles due 15 May, to be published 30 May.
 Paul's on board with this theme.
No. 25, "3.x Roadmap," articles due 15 June, to be published 30 June.
 Paul, what do you think of this theme?

I need interviewers for this issue.  I'm happy to assign you an
interviewee, or you can think of a person in GNOME who you think doesn't
get
enough attention -- look in http://www.gnomejournal.org/archives/ for
people we have not interviewed yet.

I'd like at least five more volunteers to do interviews.  And if anyone
wants to write up an article summarizing our community statistically, I'd
love that too.  Contact me, Paul, or the mailing list.

And think about writing for the next issue, especially about the 3.x
roadmap.

best,
Sumana

As they say, "Long time listener, first time caller . . . ".

I will be at UDS this coming week, and could arrange to interview someone
from the Gnome community. Thing is . . .  I'm not sure who. I know that
Canonical events might not have a ton of Gnome hackers, but there must be
someone there to talk to.

Is there anyone in this list that stands out as someone who might be a
good
person to interview?.

https://launchpad.net/sprints/uds-o

Regards,

Jim

Jim,

Thanks for your offer to contribute!  And thanks, Juanjo, for your
suggestions:

 GNOME contributors from Canonical:

Robert Ancell
Rodrigo Moya

Zeitgeist:
Seif Lotfy

from the GNOME Release team:
Fr?d?ric P?ters
Javier Jard?n


Other gnome contributors:
Alberto Ruiz
Rob Taylor

We've already interviewed a few of those folks, as you can see in
http://www.gnomejournal.org/archives/ , but all the rest of them sound
like good candidates.  For example, I don't think we've interviewed Robert
Ancell, Rob Taylor, or Javier Jard?n.  So any of those would work -- please
interview whoever is most convenient!

thanks,

Sumana

Sounds good. Thanks. Is there any kind of common set of interview questions
or is there any particular topic area I could focus on for this version of
Gnome Journal in particular?

If so, let me know.

Thanks,

Jim

Jim,

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeJournal/BehindTheScenes is a good set of questions to draw from!  You don't have to ask them all.  Since Board elections are coming up I've added a question about what the Board should do this coming year.

best,
Sumana

I was able to interview Robert Ancell at UDS. I'm reformatting my notes, and should have that ready by Friday.

I want to let Robert take a look at it to make sure that I didn't miss anything, but I will probably have the interview to you by the weekend.

Jim