On Thursday 18 March 2010 20:33:20 Bryen M. Yunashko wrote:
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 02:08 +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote:
On Friday 19 March 2010 01:23:22 Rajko M. wrote:
On Thursday 18 March 2010 08:45:44 medwinz wrote:
I missed People of openSUSE as one of genuine article of OWN.
It was created before and never actually integrated into openSUSE Weekly News, but it should be.
BTW, it needs new chief editor, I took position temporarily, made few articles and stopped. A bit too much work for my free time.
Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiig +1 for reviving People of openSUSE !
By now it should be done for the second time :)
Not only because it helps approaching people (putting faces on names/IRC nicks), but also because it puts forward contributors of the project.
Who's got time on her hands? :) It is indeed a bit time consuming, especially if you want to make high quality interviews that are customised each time (not """just""" the same set of questions, which is a lot better than nothing, but doesn't produce as good/interesting results -- no bashing at those who made the People of openSUSE interviews up to now though, great job :)).
cheers
I totally agree with you Pascal. I've been thinking the same thing. Even when I was interviewed for one of the articles, I felt like it was so vanilla-ized, with the same cookie-cutter questions asked over and over that never got indepth into who I was. It was more like filling out a profile for some website than an actual interview.
Interviewing properly is not just a time-consuming process, but a skill that takes practice. Instead of seeking out a volunteer, I propose that anyone who is interested in writing or learning how to write interviews volunteers.
Volunteer for chief editor, and volunteers for interviewers. It has to be organized as I'm sure that none will answer questions to random Joe that is asking who you are.
We can easily create a list of people we're interested in interviewing and then pick from the ones we are most comfortable with and go from there.
http://en.opensuse.org/People_of_openSUSE http://en.opensuse.org/People_of_openSUSE/Interviewed http://en.opensuse.org/People_of_openSUSE/About I guess enough to start with :)
Interviewing requires doing your homework properly. Research the subject BEFORE you interview him or her.
We missing instructions for beginners in the business.
And when you've done your homework, you'll know more than what you need just for the interview. Thus you have more knowledge to help write additional articles beyond just the interview. Like reporting on team activities, as an example.
As a side note (noise :) What about someone from the team taking time and reporting activity?
And writers is what we are definitely lacking at this time. And I KNOW from what I've seen so far that many of you have that hidden talent to write. If you're interested, but don't feel confident in your abilities yet, volunteer anyway! We're a team, you can ask any of us for guidance and advice and even review.
Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Marketing Team Lead GNOME-A11y Team Member
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