Rob, I offered to interview others since I have not done anything helpful to the project yet. I am still avialable - I guess I hid my offer between ideas on my last post.
Nancy Nancy Web Design Free 24 hour pass to lynda.com. Video courses on SEO, CMS, Design and Software Courses ________________________________ From: Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 2:19 PM Subject: Re: Blog idea: interviews with AOO developers On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Donald Harbison <dpharbi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, February 15, 2012, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >>> Something like this: >>> >>> 1. Email interview off-list with an AOO contributor. Questions like: >>> tell us about yourself, where you live, what you do for a living. >>> What is your development machine? How did you start working with >>> OpenOffice? Why? What is your favorite contribution? What other >>> OSS projects do you work with? Stuff like that. >>> >>> 2. Interview might take several exchanges via email, to follow up on >>> questions. Interviewer then assembles this into a draft, reviews with >>> interviewee. >>> >>> 3. Interviewer then posts as a blog post, hopefully with a photograph >>> of the interviewee. >>> >>> We have a lot of interesting people working on this project. So I >>> think we could have a lot of interesting posts from this. >>> >>> Any volunteers to be interviewed? Any volunteers to do the interviewing? >>> >> >> So far, all who commented think this is a great idea, not no one wants >> to volunteer. > I'll happily volunteer. > OK. Maybe that will be enough of an incentive (or threat). If no one else volunteers to be interviewed, I will interview Don for the blog, or worse, he will interview me ;-) -Rob >> I'm willing to do the interviewing if someone is willing to be >> interviewed. Otherwise I'll just drop it. The idea dies here. >> >> -Rob >> >>> I'll volunteer to help, of course. >>> >>> -Rob >>
