I am less interested in internal and more interested in external. While it's great we interview our people in the advisory board, I would like to see success stories.
Seeing as winners is important. sri On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Stormy Peters <sto...@gnome.org> wrote: > 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 >> > > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > marketing-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > >
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