I like the idea. Just as an FYI, I did interview advisory board members for GNOME Journal articles for a while. I interviewed Leslie Hawthorne/Google, Quim Gil/Nokia, Bradley Kuhn/FSF and Juan José Sánchez Penas/Igalia.
http://gnomejournal.org/article/105/interview-with-bradley-kuhn-of-the-gnome-advisory-board http://gnomejournal.org/article/98/interview-with-quim-gil-of-the-gnome-advisory-board http://gnomejournal.org/article/97/interview-with-juan-jos233-s225nchez-penas-of-the-gnome-advisory-board http://gnomejournal.org/article/81/an-interview-with-leslie-hawthorn I like the idea of asking them the same questions. At the same time, I think we should be sure to ask a few questions that are specific to the person or company being interviewed. Stormy On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Karen Sandler <ka...@gnome.org> wrote: > On Sun, October 23, 2011 1:19 pm, Oliver Propst wrote: > > On the last meeting we briefly discussed an idea to > > interview the members of the GNOME Foundation advisory board > > and publish one interview every month in the GNOME Journal. > > I propose we use 5 standard questions for the interviews. > > It would be great if Karen could email the questions to one > > representative of each company/organization on the board > > and collect the answers. I suggest that we wait to publish any > > interview before the future of GNOME Journal has been decided. > > Thanks for writing this up, Oliver! I really like this idea of > interviewing advisory board members. These questions are a good start, I > think, but we should also ask questions that are more targeted at the > particular advisory board member and how that company uses GNOME and > participates in our community.The more focused the questions we can ask, > the better the interview will read. That said, we've got to start from > somewhere, and it will be really helpful to have a list of general > question to start from. > > > The questions are just suggestions. > > x=company/organization name > > > > The email could look something like this > > (rough draft) > > > > [name], the GNOME marketing team are conducting an > > interview serie with the members of the GNOME foundation advisory board. > > We would appreciate if you as a representative for x could > > answer the following questions. > > > > *How long have x been a member of the > > Gnome Foundation advisory board? > > We may have better access to this kind of information than the advisory > board rep, if they weren't the company's rep from the beginning. We could > probably add information like this ourselves in the intro to the > interview. > Maybe instead we could ask how that member started using GNOME? > > > *How would you describe x relationship with the GNOME foundation today? > > > > *How are x using GNOME/GNOME technology? > > How about adding some questions like: > > * What do you hope will be incorporated into GNOME in the future? > > * What do you think GNOME's biggest challenge is? > > > > > *Do x support the GNOME project in any other way then being a member > > of the advisory board, if so how? > > > > *Anything else you want to add? > > > > We plan to publish the interview in a > > future edition of the GNOME Journal. > > > > Does anyone else have any other basic questions to add? I think this is a > good thing to pick up along with revitalizing the GNOME Journal. > > karen > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > marketing-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >
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