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We will roll several interview series on the blog(s), under "They make Mageia"; we showcase people making things, with the bottom lines:
- what can Mageia bring to you?
- what can you bring Mageia to?
- what is it like, joining the project?
We have:
- technical series (who makes what technical stack available, prospectives), aimed primarily to a technical audience (developers, hackers, sysadmins)
- org series (who organizes what, how does the project work, in which direction)
- User stories
- ?
In all cases, the angle of view should be: what is available, what one can do with that (as opposed to only a "what features are in")
A nice pace to have would be, one post a week (separated from announcements, so likely on Thursdays/Fridays)
Format
Needed: photograph(s), good quality, smiling/natural, large enough so we can make a large focus with it
Be careful to:
- provide pointers; as much as possible, point to quite accessible resources; for instance, point to a Wikipedia article describing a technology, rather than to the related main project website (ie, wikipedia.org/Perl instead of perl.org);
- explain acronyms (in footnotes, not to clutter too much);
- use easy examples or advanced ones, but warn of the level?
- think i18n; translators should have some help to localize/find localized resources
- this may be very technical, and that's okay, but think of letting some clues to non-expert readers
Questions
- who are you? where do you live? what do you do for a living?
- how/where do you contribute to Mageia? what else do you contribute to? why?
- so, what's special about {what you do/stack} in Mageia? what can one do with it? what's available?
- specific uses, concrete examples
- general overview, components
- pointers to online resources/books/events
- anything
- what would you love to see added/happening in Mageia? (what needs)
- free speech
Steps:
- send the questions to the person - notify who is take care of who
- gather answers, pics - suggest small improvements/edits if needed
- prepare the post, review & proofread - notify the team
- publish
Stacks to consider
Pending topics/people:
- Python (misc)
- Ruby (shikamaru)
- KDE (solid, phonon, kephal, plasma) (mikala)
- ARM (rtp)
- c/kernel/low-level (tmb ?)
- packaging tools/help (jq for mgarepo? other?)
- SQL stuff ( nanardon ?)
- Java (dmorgan)
- PHP (Thomas Spuhler/Orovalley)
Queued for review/wrapup:
- mikala (KDE?) /by ennael
- ?
Done so far:
- jq, Perl - July 2011, see http://blog.mageia.org/en/2011/07/01/make-mageia-jq/
- Obgr_seneca,i18n September 2011, see http://blog.mageia.org/en/2011/09/24/they-make-mageia-oliver-burger/
- stormi,QA,packager,madb - October 2011, see http://blog.mageia.org/en/2011/10/03/they-make-mageia-samuel-verschelde/
Topics with no identified interviewee
- Javascript (?)
- lua (?)
- NoSQL stuff (?) (have it separately or joined with SQL ?)
- Async stuff (?)
- system tools (mcc, urpmi, other) (?)
- hardware tools (?)
- sysadmin tools (?)
- audio ( we have some people interested in it ) -> look for Frank Kober
- graphics/UI engines/stacks (?)
- gnome (?) ( cause kde is there )
- virtualization, cloud (?)
- network booting/install/diskless systems (?)
- others?
