On Saturday March 26 2011 21:32:22 Kim Leyendecker wrote:

Dear Geeckos!

This is for everyone who´s interested and want to do it. If so please mail me (kimleyendecker@hotmail.de) and answer the questions. I will publish the interviews later ;)

Questions:

*What´s your releationship with openSUSE? *Since when you´re using openSUSE? *Do you used any other distros before or beside openSUSE? If so, which distros? *What´s your favourite open source tool? *Why are you using openSUSE? And why are you contribute to the openSUSE project?

If you want so, you can add something about yourself or your other projects/hobbies or just a little greeting to your wife/husband girl/boyfriend or to a person you want to greet ;)

I will publish the interviews between 26th April and 1th May on the Ambassador-List under the GNU Free Document License v1.3 and also on my blog. If the interviews published, I beg you to spread them over Facebook and Twitter or any other social network you have.

*Why that all?* Because this is a nice thing for everyone outside the project, to learn about the project members and the people who take care of their distro. It also maybe motivate people to contribute to openSUSE and open source projects as well, because they see who wonderful you all are :) and maybe get some new paragons :)

thanks

How about you resurect "poeple of openSUSE" instead?

Le 26/03/2011 21:32, Kim Leyendecker a écrit :

Dear Geeckos!

This is for everyone who´s interested and want to do it. If so please mail me (kimleyendecker@hotmail.de) and answer the questions. I will publish the interviews later ;)

is there somewhere a list of "people of openSUSE" interviews?

jdd

Le 27/03/2011 09:19, Martin Schlander a écrit :

Søndag den 27. marts 2011 07:57:21 skrev jdd:

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is there somewhere a list of "people of openSUSE" interviews?

http://news.opensuse.org/category/project/people-of-opensuse/

we should have somewhere a list with the nickname, the name and a link to the interview (was pretty fine)

jdd

Le 27/03/2011 11:09, Manu Gupta a écrit :

That was a list of people to be interviewed :)

This is the list of people who have been interviewed http://old-en.opensuse.org/People_of_openSUSE/Interviewed

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 1:37 PM, jddjdd@dodin.org wrote:

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Le 27/03/2011 10:43, Manu Gupta a écrit :

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http://old-en.opensuse.org/People_of_openSUSE

good, but not seems complete as I don't see mine :-)

thanks.

I make the wiki list as a to for this post because I wonder why these pages where not ported to the new wiki (of may be they where under an other name?)

thanks jdd

Hi

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Kim Leyendecker kimleyendecker@hotmail.de wrote:

Am 27.03.2011 03:21, schrieb Stephan Kleine:

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How about you resurect "poeple of openSUSE" instead?

What do you understand when you say "resurect"? Shall I use the same questions, or just mail the creators of "people of openSUSE" and let they to the work?

Resurrect the people of openSUSE would mean you will have to take the lead. You can use whatever set of questions you want also I can help a bit ( not a lot sorry). But if you lead it I am ready to follow your suit.

thanks

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http://old-en.opensuse.org/People_of_openSUSE

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 1:11 PM, jdd jdd@dodin.org wrote:

Le 27/03/2011 09:19, Martin Schlander a écrit :

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Søndag den 27. marts 2011 07:57:21 skrev jdd:

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is there somewhere a list of "people of openSUSE" interviews?

http://news.opensuse.org/category/project/people-of-opensuse/

we should have somewhere a list with the nickname, the name and a link to the interview (was pretty fine)

jdd

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Am 27.03.2011 11:09, schrieb Manu Gupta:

That was a list of people to be interviewed:)

This is the list of people who have been interviewed http://old-en.opensuse.org/People_of_openSUSE/Interviewed

When we start it again, shall we interview the same people as the last time? I think it´s better to create a question sheet and spread it over the openSUSE-Project mailinglist and let everybody answer, who wants. Then we create a wikipage, (maybe en.opensuse.org/People_of_openSUSE_2.0 and publish the interviews there. So, anybody who need an interview, can copy it from there and use it for PR/Ambassador things.

Of course we have to talk on the license of the interview, because it would be nice, to use it for free (maybe GNU free document license or creative commons?)

thanks

Hi,

On 27.03.2011 11:44, Kim Leyendecker wrote:

Am 27.03.2011 11:09, schrieb Manu Gupta:

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That was a list of people to be interviewed:)

This is the list of people who have been interviewed http://old-en.opensuse.org/People_of_openSUSE/Interviewed

When we start it again, shall we interview the same people as the last time? I think it´s better to create a question sheet and spread it over the openSUSE-Project mailinglist and let everybody answer, who wants. Then we create a wikipage, (maybe en.opensuse.org/People_of_openSUSE_2.0 and publish the interviews there.

The wiki is not really a good publishing tool. Our project blog is. You can of course organize the PoS project on the wiki (Introduction portal, team page, lists of people, lists of questions etc.) but you should publish on news.opensuse.org and nowhere else :-)

Henne

Hi Kim

I suggest you to not to hurry up. A few people in the marketing channel are discussing how the people of openSUSE should be continued. Some of us think that they should be more personalised and a bit of time to be taken so that they look more professional .

Since everything would go through the news team I suggest you discuss it with them too.

Regards Manu

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Kim Leyendecker kimleyendecker@hotmail.de wrote:

Am 28.03.2011 14:21, schrieb Henne Vogelsang:

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The wiki is not really a good publishing tool. Our project blog is. You can of course organize the PoS project on the wiki (Introduction portal, team page, lists of people, lists of questions etc.) but you should publish on news.opensuse.org and nowhere else :-)

Henne

Okay, then on news.opensuse.org. Per Jessen answered the questions. Shall I attach it, so that anybody can publish it, because I haven´t got the rights for publishing it?

thanks

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n Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Manu Gupta manugupt1@gmail.com wrote:

Hi

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Kim Leyendecker kimleyendecker@hotmail.de wrote:

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Am 27.03.2011 03:21, schrieb Stephan Kleine:

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How about you resurect "poeple of openSUSE" instead?

What do you understand when you say "resurect"? Shall I use the same questions, or just mail the creators of "people of openSUSE" and let they to the work?

Resurrect the people of openSUSE would mean you will have to take the lead. You can use whatever set of questions you want also I can help a bit ( not a lot sorry). But if you lead it I am ready to follow your suit.

I'm coming in a bit late to this discussion, so apologies if I've missed things.

I think new interviews could well be part of 'people of openSUSE' but the series can quite reasonably evolve and change, why not? However I guess a series should be regular, so without a definite plan and organization, perhaps it would be better to just go ahead and publish it as a stand-alone article.

That's one of the beauties of the free-form style of blog that we mostly have, you aren't locked into schedules and formats, and I think for the most part readers don't mind too much, if something catches their eye they will read it.

I've been writing some questions for someone who agreed to be an interview victim too.

As Manu mentioned in another post, it would be good to design questions for our interviewees - not just give them a cookie-cutter list. It can be helpful to do the interview in sections, sending a couple of starter questions, then following up with further questions in response to their answers, so it is a proper discussion.

We want real insights into how people tick, why they do what they do, what they think about things. Some fun questions are fine too of course, but only as dessert, not the main course. So, when you interview someone, do a little research on them and find out where they are coming from, what their interests are, so you can dig a little deeper. I know I've read some really insightful interviews that you guys have done with various people so I think you know what to do, so trust yourself and don't feel you have to follow someone else's questions.

well that's my 2c worth. Well about 1.7 cents with the current exchange rate.

cheers

Helen

Hi Kim

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Kim Leyendecker kimleyendecker@hotmail.de wrote:

Am 30.03.2011 08:06, schrieb Helen South:

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That's one of the beauties of the free-form style of blog that we mostly have, you aren't locked into schedules and formats, and I think for the most part readers don't mind too much, if something catches their eye they will read it.

I've been writing some questions for someone who agreed to be an interview victim too. As Manu mentioned in another post, it would be good to design questions for our interviewees - not just give them a cookie-cutter list. It can be helpful to do the interview in sections, sending a couple of starter questions, then following up with further questions in response to their answers, so it is a proper discussion.

Okay, but I think, we should use the original "people of openSUSE" questions, if I understood you right!? I recieved the answers by Per Jessen already, and their are ready to go public. The only question is when. I would handle it so:

I specifically feel we must tailor the interviews so that everyone feels they get special attention. So it should be done after looking into their background. That will be a lot more love than specific set of questions.

When we decided to publish the answers, we sould give the interviewed person 5 days, to read along with his answers and maybe correct or add something. This would be fair for the ones who answered and good for us, because we can plan in this time an other interview and maybe anounce it soon.

The news team will have to decide that stuff you can send your things there adn then wait for approval I believe.

But as Per's has been done, it will be taken in and a fewer interviews and lots of love is better than a lot of interview and less love

thanks

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I am but I had suggest you to join the team and take the lead for People of openSUSE :D.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Kim Leyendecker kimleyendecker@hotmail.de wrote:

Am 30.03.2011 17:35, schrieb Manu Gupta:

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The news team will have to decide that stuff you can send your things there adn then wait for approval I believe.

You´re in the news team, right? Can I send it to you?

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But as Per's has been done, it will be taken in and a fewer interviews and lots of love is better than a lot of interview and less love

+1

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Am 30.03.2011 17:42, schrieb Henne Vogelsang:

Why don't you join? Then you can edit the interviews yourself etc. Joining is just a mail tonew@opensuse.org away. People of openSUSE has always been a huge part of news.opensuse.org and if you do it you should be in the news team!:)

done

Am 30.03.2011 21:29, schrieb Andreas Jaeger:

You can use them as inspiration, change them at will - or ask your own questions specifically for each interview or a mix of both (some standard, some individual).

I think it´s better to create a clear standard of questions. Of course individual questions are welcome, in an extra section. So we´ve both: standard questions for everyone and the personal questions as well.

If you resurrect "people of openSUSE", you have the freedom to do it as you wish. Take the suggestions you get, and then decide what you think is best!

For all interested people: If you want to be interviewed, just mail me, I´ll send you the questions, you send them back, and I will see how we handle it ;)

thanks

On Thursday, March 31, 2011 04:56:22 PM Helen South wrote:

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Kim Leyendecker

kimleyendecker@hotmail.de wrote:

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I think it愀 better to create a clear standard of questions. Of course individual questions are welcome, in an extra section. So we扉e both: standard questions for everyone and the personal questions as well.

Feel free to use standard questions if you wish, but I won't. I prefer to talk to the individual and find out what they have to offer, and what they want to talk about. If you like I can just do my interviews as stand-alone pieces rather than part of the series.

Helen, Kim

All the questions that were asked are not really the way to go.

Few about connection to openSUSE yes, but after that all other are just annoyance. While I used that template, now I would ask only this questions:

Please introduce yourself! (write a short or long introduction text that could include age, birthday, place of birth, location, occupation, family status, children, pets etc. - share the information you like to)

Nickname(s)? Homepage? Blog? Favorite season: spring, summer, autumn or winter? Motto? When did you join the openSUSE community? It would be nice if you also share a picture of yourself.

Tell us about the background of your computer use. When and why did you start using openSUSE? How do you participate in the openSUSE project? What is missing in the project? What recommends openSUSE distribution?

Instead of movies and preferred text editor, I would ask few more questions about persons activity in project or distro.

cheers,

Helen

Am 31.03.2011 23:56, schrieb Helen South:

Feel free to use standard questions if you wish, but I won't. I prefer to talk to the individual and find out what they have to offer, and what they want to talk about. If you like I can just do my interviews as stand-alone pieces rather than part of the series.

Yes, good idea. We do the standard questions as a series, and your questions as a "talking to Helen South"-series with more specific questions and maybe (if you wish) more "off-topic" questions.

What do u think about it?

On 04/01/2011 03:11 PM, Kim Leyendecker wrote:

Am 31.03.2011 23:56, schrieb Helen South:

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Feel free to use standard questions if you wish, but I won't. I prefer to talk to the individual and find out what they have to offer, and what they want to talk about. If you like I can just do my interviews as stand-alone pieces rather than part of the series.

Yes, good idea. We do the standard questions as a series, and your questions as a "talking to Helen South"-series with more specific questions and maybe (if you wish) more "off-topic" questions.

What do u think about it?

Nah c'mon. Just do it together. It doesnt have to be the same all the time. Its not like we're robots, we can adapt to change :)

Henne

We do not think that way and yes I get your point, but we would like you and Helen to keep one.

Let me put it this way, Mr X is chosen for People of openSUSE Now You have a set of questions and Helen has a set of questions, remove the duplicates combine the rest and move ahead simple :D Actually this is what I and Bryen did while interviewing Petr Mladek.

It actually works

Regards Manu

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Kim Leyendecker kimleyendecker@hotmail.de wrote:

Am 01.04.2011 15:25, schrieb Henne Vogelsang:

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Nah c'mon. Just do it together. It doesnt have to be the same all the time. Its not like we're robots, we can adapt to change:)

If you think so.... It´s just, when we ask person A to answer the standard questions and person B get some more specific questions, A is thinking: "Oh, B´s interview is more specific... maybe he´s more important then me...." and so on....

you got me?

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On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Kim Leyendecker kimleyendecker@hotmail.de wrote:

Am 30.03.2011 21:29, schrieb Andreas Jaeger:

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You can use them as inspiration, change them at will - or ask your own questions specifically for each interview or a mix of both (some standard, some individual).

I think it愀 better to create a clear standard of questions. Of course individual questions are welcome, in an extra section. So we扉e both: standard questions for everyone and the personal questions as well.

...

If you resurrect "people of openSUSE", you have the freedom to do it as you wish. Take the suggestions you get, and then decide what you think is best!

For all interested people: If you want to be interviewed, just mail me, I惻l send you the questions, you send them back, and I will see how we handle it ;)

thanks

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How are you going to base who going to get interview?

Kim Leyendecker wrote:

Am 01.04.2011 01:36, schrieb Rajko M.:

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Instead of movies and preferred text editor, I would ask few more questions about persons activity in project or distro.

At first a logical and good idea, but we´re all humans, also the openSUSE people. And the not savvy people who using openSUSE are more interested in their favourite movie or favourite food/drink,so this is a part, I like on this. It also allows us, to learn about each other as a "normal" person, not just a collegue at the project.

+1.

Am 01.04.2011 20:12, schrieb Jos Poortvliet:

Ok, so we need other/better questions... Maybe we could do it this way: you just send in a bit about yourself, Kim asks follow-up questions focussing on what he finds interesting and compiles an article out of that :D

+1 Let´s doing it this way. But the interview-part isn´t just my work, I think. I won´t killing somebody if she/he go ahead and interview somebody on his or her own and send me the results. So, if anybody want, just go ahead! ;)

thanks

http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:People_of_openSUSE

Added potential interviews with Per (done, will go public on 04/04/11) and Jos (half-done). Also correct my name on the lead-line.

Thanks to Henne for moving to openSUSE:People_of_openSUSE

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