[gnome-women] Opportunity to get involved - [Fwd: writer/interviewer wanted- article suggestion for next gnome-journal]

[Máirín Duffy <duffy redhat com>]

Hey guys,

Just passing on another good opportunity... There's about a week to do
this one.

~m

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>
> To: marketing list <marketing-list gnome org>, Gnome-Love <gnome-
> love gnome org>, gnome-list gnome org, sri gnome org, Jonathan
> Blandford <jrb redhat com>, snickell redhat com
> Subject: writer/interviewer wanted- article suggestion for next gnome-
> journal
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:52:53 -0400
> Hey, so... I'm aiming this email mostly at lurkers on the cc'd lists,
> who might want to find a starting point to jump in and help out.
> Requirements are confidence to email total strangers, ability to
> convincingly/politely ask those strangers to help, and good enough
> english to write up the results. Oh, and enough free time to do all
> this in the next 7 days. Should be lots of people like that on the
> list, I hope :)
> 
> As most of you probably know, Google has funded the 'summer of
> code'(SoC), where gnome (among other projects) had 10 people sponsored
> to work on GNOME-related projects for the summer.
> 
> Their work is nearly ready to wrap up, they and their work have not
> really been sufficiently publicized, and the next gnome-journal is
> nearly ready to publish. A match made in heaven. :)
> 
> The basic idea here would be to do an overview of the successful SoC
> projects- describe the projects briefly, interview the authors
> briefly, ask what they found most fun, most challenging, how
> successful they feel they were in meeting their initial project goals,
> etc. Should be pretty easy- same basic questions and format for each
> hacker and piece, just need to track them down and ask the questions
> :)
> 
> There is a list of the people and projects here:
> http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode
> 
> Please email the marketing list if you plan on tackling this, so
> someone can help give you pointers to the right people on both sides
> (gnome-journal and SoC) and so we don't get a half-dozen people all
> emailing the SoC kids.
> 
> Really hope someone can take this idea up and get us a kick-ass
> article for the next gnome-journal- would be great for the journal, a
> nice note for the hackers to end their summers on, and good for gnome
> to write up and publicize these things.
> 
> Luis