Hi,
my name is Anica and I currently do an internship here at Novell in the openSUSE project. I think that the people behind the openSUSE project, the members of the openSUSE community, should become a little more visible to each other. Therefore I am planning to do several interviews with different community members (i.e. the 'People of openSUSE') about their involvement in the project and also about their personal life and interests. The interviews will always contain the same set of questions and will be published on openSUSE.org.
Here are some possible questions for an interview (this is really a first draft!):
Clear and brief: Age Place of birth Location Occupation Family status Mainly used distribution Preferred desktop Favorite application Hardware Homepage / Blog Favorite season: spring, summer, autumn or winter? ...
Questions related to the openSUSE project: What made you join the openSUSE community? How do you participate in the openSUSE project? What motivates you the most to participate in the openSUSE project? When do you mainly spend time for the openSUSE project: in your spare time, at work, at the weekend, at night etc.? What do you think about the future of the openSUSE project? How many members of the openSUSE community have you ever met in person?
Without which existent application you couldn't live? Which nonexistent application should be invented as soon as possible? Tell us about your computer history! ...
Personal questions: Worst movie ever seen? Name your favorite movie scene! Worst television commercial ever seen? Do you watch any TV series? Star Trek or Star Wars? Cinema or DVD? What's your favorite food? Favorite toy in your childhood? Favorite (video) game console (in your childhood and today)? What do you do in your spare time? What's your preferred way to spend your vacation? What was the most exiting experience in your life? May your share an embarrassing experience? Someone transfers you $1.000.000 from his bank account – what would you do with the money? The Internet crashes for one week – how would you feel, what would you do? There is a thunderstorm – do you turn off your computer? Which (famous) person would you like to meet (irrespective if still alive or not)? Have you ever spilt some beer (or some other drink) on your keyboard/computer? You can't live without... Which one was the worst question? ...
End of suggestions...
I would like to know what you think about the questions above, which ones you like, dislike, hate or if you have a better wording for a question.
And feel also free to suggest some more questions (or topics) who should be asked in the interviews.
Last but not least, which kind of pictures are you willing to publish on openSUSE.org (pictures of you, your pets, your desk, your car, your desktop, your house etc.)?
If somebody would like to support me with the interviews and maybe even consider to take over in a couple of months - let me know.
Thank you for participating!
Regards,
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Em Quarta, 18 de Julho de 2007, o A.K. escreveu:
I think that the people behind the openSUSE project, the members of the openSUSE community, should become a little more visible to each other.
I totally agree with you! It's funny because some days ago I had the same thought...
Therefore I am planning to do several interviews with different community members (i.e. the 'People of openSUSE') about their involvement in the project and also about their personal life and interests. The interviews will always contain the same set of questions and will be published on openSUSE.org.
So like a "People Behind KDE" style, correct?
Here are some possible questions for an interview (this is really a first draft!):
Clear and brief: Age Place of birth Location Occupation Family status Mainly used distribution Preferred desktop Favorite application Hardware Homepage / Blog Favorite season: spring, summer, autumn or winter? ...
Add nickname to the list.
Questions related to the openSUSE project:
Suggestion 1: - A person ask you why should he/she choose openSUSE instead of other distribution/OS. What would be your arguments to convince him/her to pick up openSUSE?
Suggestion 2: - Three words to describe openSUSE.
Someone transfers you $1.000.000 from his bank account – what would you do with the money?
It's obviously that he would donate all the money to the openSUSE project ;-)
Last but not least, which kind of pictures are you willing to publish on openSUSE.org (pictures of you, your pets, your desk, your car, your desktop, your house etc.)?
I think that people are more interested in seeing how he/she desktop looks like because it's a kind of personal-geek-thing.
If somebody would like to support me with the interviews and maybe even consider to take over in a couple of months - let me know.
I can help you even though it's simple because questions are the same interview over interview so we only need to point out to someone. How frequently are you thinking to do/release the interviews?
On Thursday 19 July 2007 03:12, Carlos Goncalves wrote:
Em Quarta, 18 de Julho de 2007, o A.K. escreveu:
Therefore I am planning to do several interviews with different community members (i.e. the 'People of openSUSE') about their involvement in the project and also about their personal life and interests. The interviews will always contain the same set of questions and will be published on openSUSE.org.
So like a "People Behind KDE" style, correct?
Correct!
Here are some possible questions for an interview (this is really a first draft!):
Clear and brief:
Add nickname to the list.
Questions related to the openSUSE project:
Suggestion 1: - A person ask you why should he/she choose openSUSE instead of other distribution/OS. What would be your arguments to convince him/her to pick up openSUSE?
Suggestion 2: - Three words to describe openSUSE.
:-) I especially like the last one.
Last but not least, which kind of pictures are you willing to publish on openSUSE.org (pictures of you, your pets, your desk, your car, your desktop, your house etc.)?
I think that people are more interested in seeing how he/she desktop looks like because it's a kind of personal-geek-thing.
You might be right about that, but it would be the same picture they use at 'People Behind KDE'. So it would be nice to find/take another one.
If somebody would like to support me with the interviews and maybe even consider to take over in a couple of months - let me know.
I can help you even though it's simple because questions are the same interview over interview so we only need to point out to someone.
For example you could suppose some community members which should be interviewed :-)
How frequently are you thinking to do/release the interviews?
At first I would like to publish three or four interviews per week, later on one or two per month.
By the way, the questions will be asked via email.
Regards,
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On 7/19/07, A.K. protected@suse.de wrote:
On Thursday 19 July 2007 03:12, Carlos Goncalves wrote:
Em Quarta, 18 de Julho de 2007, o A.K. escreveu:
Therefore I am planning to do several interviews with different community members (i.e. the 'People of openSUSE') about their involvement in the project and also about their personal life and interests. The interviews will always contain the same set of questions and will be published on openSUSE.org.
So like a "People Behind KDE" style, correct?
Correct!
Here are some possible questions for an interview (this is really a first draft!):
Clear and brief:
Add nickname to the list.
Questions related to the openSUSE project:
Suggestion 1: - A person ask you why should he/she choose openSUSE instead of other distribution/OS. What would be your arguments to convince him/her to pick up openSUSE?
Suggestion 2: - Three words to describe openSUSE.
:-) I especially like the last one.
Last but not least, which kind of pictures are you willing to publish on openSUSE.org (pictures of you, your pets, your desk, your car, your desktop, your house etc.)?
I think that people are more interested in seeing how he/she desktop looks like because it's a kind of personal-geek-thing.
You might be right about that, but it would be the same picture they use at 'People Behind KDE'. So it would be nice to find/take another one.
If somebody would like to support me with the interviews and maybe even consider to take over in a couple of months - let me know.
I can help you even though it's simple because questions are the same interview over interview so we only need to point out to someone.
For example you could suppose some community members which should be interviewed :-)
TIPP: You can select random ppl from openSUSE wiki editors, and from IRC.
How frequently are you thinking to do/release the interviews?
At first I would like to publish three or four interviews per week, later on one or two per month.
By the way, the questions will be asked via email.
Regards,
Anica
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Em Quinta, 19 de Julho de 2007, o Andras Barna escreveu:
Last but not least, which kind of pictures are you willing to publish on openSUSE.org (pictures of you, your pets, your desk, your car, your desktop, your house etc.)?
I think that people are more interested in seeing how he/she desktop looks like because it's a kind of personal-geek-thing.
You might be right about that, but it would be the same picture they use at 'People Behind KDE'. So it would be nice to find/take another one.
True. I choose picture from desk then.
If somebody would like to support me with the interviews and maybe even consider to take over in a couple of months - let me know.
I can help you even though it's simple because questions are the same interview over interview so we only need to point out to someone.
For example you could suppose some community members which should be interviewed :-)
TIPP: You can select random ppl from openSUSE wiki editors, and from IRC.
Or from bloggers at Planet SUSE (more people)...
How frequently are you thinking to do/release the interviews?
At first I would like to publish three or four interviews per week, later on one or two per month.
Sounds good.
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 17:18:35 A.K. wrote:
Mainly used distribution
The answer to this could become quickly very boring ;-)...
Preferred desktop
Preferred text editor? :-)
What made you join the openSUSE community?
And when...
What do you think about the future of the openSUSE project?
What do you think is missing/underrated in the distro and the project?
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On Thursday 19 July 2007 03:12:33 Carlos Goncalves wrote:
Suggestion 2: - Three words to describe openSUSE.
Instead of exactly three words rather ask for a slogan. :-)
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On Thursday 19 July 2007 13:40:35 Andras Barna wrote:
How frequently are you thinking to do/release the interviews?
At first I would like to publish three or four interviews per week, later on one or two per month.
I know that your internship is time limited and I have nothing against you doing four interviews per week :-) but I want to suggest to create a stock and let us publish only one interview per week at maximum.
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On Wednesday, 18. July 2007 17:18:35 A.K. wrote:
Clear and brief:
Favorite drink at work (so that we know why X is always missing in the fridge :-)...
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On Thursday 19 July 2007 23:59, Stephan Binner wrote:
On Thursday 19 July 2007 03:12:33 Carlos Goncalves wrote:
Suggestion 2: - Three words to describe openSUSE.
Instead of exactly three words rather ask for a slogan. :-)
Or maybe a combination: Three words to describe openSUSE? Or make up a proper slogan!
Regards,
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On Wednesday 18 July 2007 17:18, A.K. wrote:
Clear and brief: Age Place of birth Location Occupation Family status Mainly used distribution Preferred desktop Favorite application Hardware
New idea: Maybe we should cut this section and use an open question instead (something like 'Please introduce yourself'). Additionally there could be some hints: age, location, family status, occupation etc. Then everybody is able to decide for himself, which personal information he wants to share.
Questions about desktop, application, text editor etc. could be asked as open questions in section two.
Regards,
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On Friday 20 July 2007 00:03:50 Stephan Binner wrote:
doing four interviews per week :-) but I want to suggest to create a stock and let us publish only one interview per week at maximum.
Or maybe two per week with one being from the community and one from Novell, but not published on the same day then. :-)
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