Victims:
* Is there a database of comments from development contributor and
other contributors that we can use? If so, we could start at the top and
approach the name of one who posted the most in the last year or so. We could
work our way down the list. They can always say 'not now...' or 'no way'!
* I like Rob's list of questions for starters - any more questions that
would help in an interview?
* Is there a place set up to post the results?
* Louis - you had experience doing this before, do you suggest emails,
skype - free trials of Adobe Connect - anything helpful to use in an interview?
Nancy
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From: Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org>
To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: Blog idea: interviews with AOO developers
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Nancy K <nancythirt...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
Hi Nancy,
This is good. We have three people willing to do interviews. Now we
just need a willing victim, or two or three. Plan B is we all
interview each other ;-)
-Rob
>
> Nancy
>
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> ________________________________
> 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
>>>
