Re: Simple Idea for Gnome Journal

["Steve George" <slgeorge gmail com>]

Hi,

I did a couple of these "back in the day" when I doing the GNOME Weekly
summaries.  One of the ideas was to extend interviews and put up a
gallery on the website so everyone would know the contributors.

Two things:

a.  They aren't that well-read other than if the person says
something really outstanding.  People like celebrity and
controversy.  If it's Linus then everyone cares what {insert
personal item like favourite jam/movie/car} you like ... if don't have
a profile no-one cares.  Readers did seem interested in computer
questions that they could learn from or identify personally with - like
how X got into Linux, experiences of GNOME, favourite applications,
favourite sites, gnome tips and anything about future of GNOME/app
etc.  Controversy obviously gets interest.

b.  Ask open questions, and you'll probably have to heavily edit
the answers - don't feel it has to be a transcript.  Just have the
interviee check the final copy to ensure that it's captured what they'd
like to say.  You can pick the most interesting answers from a
range of questions.

Sometimes the value is in being recognised; Miguel's been interviewed a
hundred times, but the longest contributor to the bugsquad probably
hasn't.

Regards,

Steve

On 2/6/06, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com> wrote:

Way way better than mine.  My next one was the "The Knights that say GuhNOME"
so glad you stopped me.

sri

On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 02:36:13PM -0300, Lucas Rocha wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In a ultra-fast talk with Claus and Jimmy on IRC, we decided to call
> it "Behind the Scenes: Contributor Name".
>
> Contribution goes here:
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeJournal/BehindTheScenes
>
> p eace
>
> --lucasr
>
>
> 2006/2/6, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>:
> > On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 09:47:17PM +1100, Hugh Buzacott wrote:
> > > >Suggestion?
> > > How about 'Meet a GNOME'.
> > >
> >
> > I'm not very enthused by the title.  I keep thinking garden gnomes
> > and I'm not very interested in meeting those. :-)
> >
> > How about:
> >
> > "Meet a Knight of the GNOME  Desktop Revolution"
> >
> > It's silly enough to take notice.  But I felt stupid killing your
> > suggestion and not coming up with one of my own.  It's probably as
> > good as yours.
> >
> > sri
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