that's the main landing page for feature
profiles - it links to all the ones we've done in the past, along
with the SOP on how to make them.(mchua,
22:53:53)
"Feature profiles are profiles of specific
Fedora features for which the Marketing team creates extra
collateral such as interviews, podcasts, or other materials."(mchua,
22:54:03)
For featuer profiles for a release, we're
primarily aiming at covering the improvements made for that release
- for instance, "What's new in NetworkManager for F13? How did that
come to be?" It's a story of what people have been doing in the last
6 months.(mchua,
22:58:43)
Feature profiles are consequently based on
interviews with the developers.(mchua,
23:01:23)
An easy way to find interviewees for a feature
profile is to go to the Talking Points for that release, and click
through to the feature pages for the talking point you're
covering.(mchua,
23:01:45)
Each feature page will have an owner, and there
will be contact information for that owner; oftentimes, that's the
developer you want to interview.(mchua,
23:02:01)
Feature profiles shouldn't just be a way to
advertise what fedora has - it's also a way for the community to
get a more in depth look at what poeple are working on, that they
can't always see because they're so busy doing their stuff.(mchua,
23:02:24)
Feature profiles are a great opportunity for
developers to have "their chance to shine." Highlight the good work
people are doing.(mchua,
23:02:41)
Feature profiles should be remixable content -
people can and will respin them into other pieces for blogging,
denting, filming, printing, press kits, etc.(mchua,
23:03:21)
There is no word limit for feature profiles,
consequently.(mchua,
23:03:31)
Feature profiles are written on the wiki - you
link to them from that release's feature profile page (for instance,
for F13, that page is
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:F13_in-depth_features)(mchua,
23:09:45)
The audience for feature profiles is a general
Fedora user audience - don't necessarily assume technical
familiarity!(mchua,
23:14:39)
in feature profiles - we're not just
emphasizing fedora -the distro-, but also fedora -the
community(mchua,
23:14:59)
Feature profile interviews can be conducted in
a variety of ways - IRC is common, as is email, or for podcast,
audio, etc. It doesn't really matter as long as the final edited
version is made available via the wiki.(mchua,
23:17:09)
possible questions - * tell me about yourself,
what do you do, where do you work?(rbergeron,
23:18:14)
how didyou get involved in Fedora?(rbergeron,
23:18:20)
what drove the need to create / enhance /
upgrade this feature?(rbergeron,
23:18:40)
(not an interview questions) - look at other
activities inside fedora. is this used in fedora infrastructure? was
there a "fedora test day" done to test this feature? look at the
wiki page - tons of information? are there screenshots to be used..
or is the interviewee interested in making some screenshots for the
interview?(rbergeron,
23:20:01)
does this feature make the developers
day-to-day work easier?(rbergeron,
23:20:42)
robyn is just listing random possible questions
to ask(rbergeron,
23:20:53)
when making questions - be familiar with the
Feature. try to anticipate what answers might be, so that you can
make the next question flow from the previous answer.(rbergeron,
23:21:34)
don't just have a free-flow interview - have
questions ready!(rbergeron,
23:22:23)
*please* use zodbot for the interview, it makes
your life much easier!(mchua,
23:23:08)