Re: Interviews please? :)

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi,

On 06/07/2012 10:14 AM, alex diavatis wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Dave Neary <dneary gnome org
> <mailto:dneary gnome org>> wrote:
>     Perhaps not the board, but I think the idea of short blog-sized
>     interviews going out weekly is a great idea. We need a list of
>     interviewees and volunteer interviewers, and someone watching out
>     for people we can add to the list/bump to the top as current news
>     requires.\
>
> There is no need to complicate things :) We would like to have
> interviews with developers from specific projects: gtk/clutter porting
> to wayland, mutter/shell, epiphany, boxes, online accounts -as priority.
> I asked also BoD because, it would be nice if someone could talk about
> the marketing goals of GNOME. But in general yes we want in a weekly
> base people from GNOME to talk on public.

It's not - but you still need a list.

gtk/clutter to Wayland: Emmanuele Bassi maybe?
mutter/shell: Owen Taylor, Jon McCann, Jasper St. Pierre, Florian Muellner?
Epiphany: Xan Lopez, Claudio Saavedra
Boxes: Zeeshan Ali
Online accounts: No idea.

BoD (outgoing): Brian Cameron, Emmanuele Bassi, Bastien Nocera, Ryan 
Lortie, Stormy Peters, Shaun McCance, German Poo Caamano

Executive director: Karen Sandler

>     I'm afraid not! That list was put together originally in 2006,
>     partially updated in 2008, and as Juanjo said, he updated details on
>     1 or 2 deployments this year. But we're lacking a good way to find
>     out about reference deployments of GNOME because a lot of them are
>     Red Hat Enterprise deployments or Suse Linux. We've actually had
>     more success getting references from Suse and Ubuntu than from Red
>     Hat for some reason. Not sure why that is.
>
>
> Maybe the guys from RH could give us some info about the deployments
> they do, or it is secret? :)

You put a smiley, but yes, it often is. Clients have to give permission 
to Red Hat before they can talk about them. I can dig around now I'm 
inside and see if I can come up with some good GNOME-related interviews 
& case studies we may use.

>     I don't think we've ever had stickers to sell, but we often print
>     out sticker sheets for conferences. Perhaps someone from gnome-fr or
>     GNOME can send you some, if we have an address.
>
>
> At some point a GNOME online store wouldn't be bad idea, not for the
> profit but everyone has one :) I will ask Greek GNOME ambassador for it
> then.
>
>
>     May I ask who "we" is?
>
>
> Hmm? I am referring to wogue blog if is that what you asking

Yes - I meant "are you saying "we" as in gnome marketing with weekly 
interviews for the GNOME News blog, or "we" as in some external site. 
Seems to be the latter. Thanks for clearing that up.

Cheers,
Dave.

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Dave Neary
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dneary gnome org
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