Behind the Scenes

What?

Behind the Scenes is the interview section of GnomeJournal, inspired by the The People Behind KDE initiative. The idea is to have one GNOME contributor interviewed in each GJ issue.

Interview

Feel free to tailor the questions a little to the person!

Short Intro

• Age:
• Located in:
• Profession:
• Nickname on IRC:
• Homepage and blog:

Common Questions

• In what ways do you contribute to GNOME?
• How and when did you get involved in GNOME? Why did you choose the area you work on now?
• What motivates/keeps you motivated to work on GNOME?
• How much time do you usually spend on GNOME?
• What do you think is still badly missing in GNOME?
• Which distribution do you use? Why?
• What's GNOME's greatest accomplishment?
• What should the role of the GNOME Foundation be?
• What is the GNOME's killer app? Why?
• Who are your favorite GNOME hackers? Why?
• What should the GNOME Board's priorities be in 2011-2012?
• What does your desktop look like?
• Which book is on your bedside table?
• Who or what in your life would you say influenced you most?
• What do you wish you had more time for?
• What do you get passionate about?
• What sites do you visit daily?
• Free Software or Open Source?
• Married, partner or up for adoption?
• If you have a partner or children, how do they cope with a GNOME addict?
• If someone visits your country, which spot is a must-see?

Quickies

• A personality?
• A phrase?
• A movie?
• A food?
• A place?
• A text editor?
• A band?
• A song?

Random Questions

Add your ideas here!

Candidates

(check the archives to see whether we interviewed them already)

• VincentUntz

• KjartanMaraas

• TimGerla

• TorLillqvist

• MatthiasClasen

• JohnPalmieri

• DaniloSegan -- il8n stuff

• FernandoHerrera -- bugzilla/gnome-love/general hacking

• CarlosGarnacho -- gnome-vfs and others

• Christian Newmair -- gnome-vfs and others

• MurrayCumming -- The taoist non-leader

• OlavVitters -- Dancing with Bugs

• AndreasNilsson -- Visual identity & misc graphs

• GermanPooCaamano -- Behind many scenes

• GuilhermePastore -- Knows The GNOME Matrix

• RossGolder -- The GNOME Matrix respects him

• Jeff Schroeder
• Paul Cutler
• Brian Cameron
• Emily Chen
• Fred Muller
• Dave Neary

• SimosXenitellis -- I bet has something different to explain

• ShaunMcCance -- doc stuff

• JoachimNoreiko -- doc hero

• Owen Taylor, Colin Walters, Jon McCann, Dan Winship, Marina Zhurakhinskaya, Maxim Ermilov, or Florian Mullner from GNOME Shell. The last two are not part of the core team at Red Hat leading the project; they are community heroes (arguably done Issue 23 2011)

• DavydMadeley (Done - Issue 10 2007)

• LucasRocha -- general hacking -- bugzilla (Done - Issue 16 8/15/09)

• OwenTaylor -- Post-chairing, he has a story (Done - Issue 15 7/1/09)

• FedericoMenaQuintero (Done - Issue 22 2011)

• Add your nominees here!

Not to forget, all the let's say leaders of regional GNOME associations i.e. GNOME Hispano.

And someone should dig deep in Asia and Latin America to bring the names of other unnamed heroes, difficult to remember by the average European citizen.

Interview Queue

Contact

If you'd like to be interviewed, indicate someone, give some feedback, email mailto:pcutler@gnome.org.