Just as an experiment... would anyone be willing to setup a laptop with a video capture camera running cheese at FUDCon so we can capture some candid documentary styled interviews of individual contributors? I want video of people sitting down, stating their names and answer a single pre-defined question. I don't need it to be high quality. I just want to experiment with this sort of footage as a way to put a human face on the project but doesn't need a lot of editting to be useful. So if you are going to FUDCon and think this is an interesting experiment, here is what I'd like to see. 1) A laptop with cheese running set up so that people can sit down in front of a reasonable neutral background...blank wall of any color would be fine. 2) A simple script that we ask everyone to follow where they are asked to state their name, state the question they are going to answer and state the answer. 3) Give people a time limit of a couple of minutes per personal theora video. So the only thing is really.. what question to ask people. If someone is willing to put the hardware together to attempt to experiment. I'll convince the Board to provide the question to ask and we'll see how this sort of thing goes over. If we like the result and think we can use it, we can replicate it by asking ambassadors to repeat this sort of thing at different global events and build up footage in different languages that we can edit together as needed for marketing purposes. -jef

I would say you don't need the Board to provide the question -- put a suggestion here and let the Marketing crew here refine it! How about: "Why do you work on the Fedora Project, as opposed to some other {FOSS project, hobby, philanthropic pursuit}?"

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora(a)nicubunu.ro&gt; wrote: > An additional question may be: "How (and maybe when) have you started > contributing to Fedora". > > Also "What do you like the most at contributing to Fedora?" and also be bold > and ask "What are the areas where you think it could be better?" For simplicity I want a single question and a response time limit as part of the script. It's our first attempt at this sort of thing, and I don't want a big pile that requires a massive amount of human editing to do anything useful with. To that extend I think Paul's example question is structured wrongly...way to wordy. For the first time out I also don't want a criticism question or a suggestion question. The reason I suggested this exercise was to generate video material we could use for external-facing marketting reasons. Video we can string together with minimal editting and show to external people to get them interested in joining our community. I think you have something close to the right question here: "What do you like the most about contributing to Fedora" short, direct, positive.

That's a good one, no doubt. If you wanted to be a bit more open-ended (maybe not the best goal, I agree): "What is Fedora to you?"