---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Siegel <[email protected]> Date: 19 April 2010 21:08 Subject: Re: Request for an interview To: Russell Dickenson <[email protected]>
Russell, I was put-off by your approach to interviewing me. * It doesn't seem that you've done any research (you didn't know my name, where I work, or even spell "GNOME Do" correctly). * You just sent me a list of questions to answer, many of which didn't apply to me and failed to address the interesting things I could talk about. Had I answered these pointless questions, you would have simply published my boring responses to boring questions and your readers would have been... bored! David On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Russell Dickenson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12 February 2010 00:20, David Siegel <[email protected]> wrote: >> Russell, it would be a pleasure. >> >> David >> >> On Feb 10, 2010 10:57 PM, "Russell Dickenson" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Dear Gnome Do developer (I hope I have the right email address), >> >> I write the newsletter for the Frugalware Linux distribution. I was >> wondering if you'd agree to a written interview, to be published in >> our newsletter? The questions would be quite basic - e.g. an >> "introduction" to yourself, how you started writing FLOSS >> applications, your motivation(s), etc. >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Russell Dickenson >> Brisbane, Australia >> > > David, > > Just a gentle reminder about the FLOSS developer interview. It wasn't > until I listened to the interview with Ivanka on the Ubuntu UK podcast > that I discovered you're a member of the Canonical design team. Cool! > > I look forward to receiving your reply to the FLOSS developer > questions when you have time available. > > > Regards, > > Russell Dickenson I recently asked GNOME Do developer David Siegel for a FLOSS interview for the newsletter. In reply to my first request he said "Yes", so I sent him the standard list of FLOSS developer questions. I hadn't heard from him so I thought I'd send a reminder - quoted above. In reply to this reminder he said the reply quoted above. I can understand and appreciate David's reply. It hurt me a little to get this criticism but I'm "big enough" to take it, think about it and make any improvements I see are necessary. I need your help in dealing with this because I want whatever I do to be *positive* for Frugalware, not negative. I have been using a standard list of questions so that each FLOSS developer interview has the same basic format. Perhaps as David says, this is simply not appropriate or interesting when interviewing different FLOSS developers. It seems OK for Frugalware's users and developers, but maybe that could also be improved? When I have asked people in the Frugalware community for their opinion of the Frugalware newsletter, I have had only positive feedback. I wonder if those people have wanted to be nice to protect my feelings? Does anyone else have an opinion on David's feedback and how I might improve my approach to FLOSS developers? May you always be Frugal, Russell Dickenson (AKA phayz) _______________________________________________ Frugalware-devel mailing list [email protected] http://frugalware.org/mailman/listinfo/frugalware-devel
