I like to know a little about the background of those people who contribute to FLOSS projects that I have an interest in and/or use. Since we've started the Geany newsletter I would like to see interviews with the Geany developers and contributors featured. The format I'm suggesting would be a general question-and-answer format. The general idea is to have each developer tell their story, hopefully demonstrating that people from all sorts of backgrounds and levels of experience can and do make a difference.
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:25:59 +1000, Russell wrote:
I like to know a little about the background of those people who contribute to FLOSS projects that I have an interest in and/or use. Since we've started the Geany newsletter I would like to see interviews with the Geany developers and contributors featured. The format I'm suggesting would be a general question-and-answer format. The general idea is to have each developer tell their story, hopefully demonstrating that people from all sorts of backgrounds and levels of experience can and do make a difference.
Very good idea! I'm all for it. Just as a following suggestion, since the quantity of Geany core developers is quite small (you only need one hand to count us :D), we should make clear from the beginning that this includes also the plugin developers, I'd say.
Again, thanks to you, Frank and the others for making the newsletter happen. I think this is a good and new thing, the Geany community missed so far a lot. Or more general, such "non-technical work" :). Great!
Regards, Enrico
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:59:44 +0100 Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
Very good idea! I'm all for it. Just as a following suggestion, since the quantity of Geany core developers is quite small (you only need one hand to count us :D), we should make clear from the beginning that this includes also the plugin developers, I'd say.
Hey, you can count up to 1024 with both hands.... (well, as I did show this to my family I had the small feeling they want to declare me insane .... )
But I would also say include the plugin devs as well as translators if they like to. There a huge number of people working at free software which all have interesting ideas about Geany and the world :)
Cheers, Frank
On 17 March 2011 05:49, Frank Lanitz frank@frank.uvena.de wrote:
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:59:44 +0100 Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
Very good idea! I'm all for it. Just as a following suggestion, since the quantity of Geany core developers is quite small (you only need one hand to count us :D), we should make clear from the beginning that this includes also the plugin developers, I'd say.
Hey, you can count up to 1024 with both hands.... (well, as I did show this to my family I had the small feeling they want to declare me insane .... )
I can't even *imagine* why they'd think you might be insane. :P
But I would also say include the plugin devs as well as translators if they like to. There a huge number of people working at free software which all have interesting ideas about Geany and the world :)
Yes, I should make this clear - the interviews would be with "Geany developers and contributors". I mentioned this in my proposal, then went on to mention only developers. Oops.
The aim of the newsletters is to let those in the Geany community know a little about the people who help create and maintain Geany and its plugins, also provide support in other ways, such as translation. For someone who is currently not contributing, it can be encouraging to read others' stories and they may think "Hey, if they can do X maybe I can too." Some people may assume that they're "not worthy", perhaps because they don't have technical knowledge. Everyone *can* contribute and I hope that the interviews would demonstrate that there is not one set of criteria that you need to meet to be a contributor.
I don't know if this explanation has made things clearer or not... :)
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 06:39:49 +1000 Russell Dickenson russelldickenson@gmail.com wrote:
On 17 March 2011 05:49, Frank Lanitz frank@frank.uvena.de wrote:
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:59:44 +0100 Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
Very good idea! I'm all for it. Just as a following suggestion, since the quantity of Geany core developers is quite small (you only need one hand to count us :D), we should make clear from the beginning that this includes also the plugin developers, I'd say.
Hey, you can count up to 1024 with both hands.... (well, as I did show this to my family I had the small feeling they want to declare me insane .... )
I can't even *imagine* why they'd think you might be insane. :P
But I would also say include the plugin devs as well as translators if they like to. There a huge number of people working at free software which all have interesting ideas about Geany and the world :)
Yes, I should make this clear - the interviews would be with "Geany developers and contributors". I mentioned this in my proposal, then went on to mention only developers. Oops.
The aim of the newsletters is to let those in the Geany community know a little about the people who help create and maintain Geany and its plugins, also provide support in other ways, such as translation. For someone who is currently not contributing, it can be encouraging to read others' stories and they may think "Hey, if they can do X maybe I can too." Some people may assume that they're "not worthy", perhaps because they don't have technical knowledge. Everyone *can* contribute and I hope that the interviews would demonstrate that there is not one set of criteria that you need to meet to be a contributor.
I don't know if this explanation has made things clearer or not... :)
Yepp, at least I've got you and I like that idea. Somebody like to take this part over to create maybe three questions and doing the interview, most likely via email? Russell, as you did suggest this, maybe do you like to take this over?
Cheers, Frank
On 17 March 2011 09:36, Frank Lanitz frank@frank.uvena.de wrote:
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 06:39:49 +1000 Russell Dickenson russelldickenson@gmail.com wrote:
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I don't know if this explanation has made things clearer or not... :)
Yepp, at least I've got you and I like that idea. Somebody like to take this part over to create maybe three questions and doing the interview, most likely via email? Russell, as you did suggest this, maybe do you like to take this over?
Although I hadn't mentioned this anywhere I'm happy to take on this task. I have done this for the Frugalware Linux newsletter with success so I'll try a similar approach with the Geany interviews. I'll put together a list of questions soon.
Frank Lanitz wrote:
Hey, you can count up to 1024 with both hands.... (well, as I did show this to my family I had the small feeling they want to declare me insane .... )
Um, shouldn't that be 1023? :)
On 17 March 2011 12:03, Ross McKay rosko@zeta.org.au wrote:
Frank Lanitz wrote:
Hey, you can count up to 1024 with both hands.... (well, as I did show this to my family I had the small feeling they want to declare me insane .... )
Um, shouldn't that be 1023? :)
Nah, there are 1024 combinations of fingers so you can count to 1024, no-one said it was a conventional binary representation :-) after all according to his family he's insane :-D
Cheers Lex
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