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Re: Behind MOTU

To: Daniel Holbach <daniel.holbach@xxxxxxxxxx>, behindmotu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Maia Kozheva <sikon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:50:13 +0700
Cc: David Futcher <bobbo@xxxxxxxxxx>, Amber Graner <akgraner@xxxxxxxxxx>, Nigel Babu <nigelbabu@xxxxxxxxxx>
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26.07.2010 16:03, Daniel Holbach wrote:

Hello David, Maia, Nigel,

how are you all doing?

First of all I'd like to thank you all for taking over. You'll very
likely do a better job at keeping the Developer Interviews alive.


I'll try! :)

Here's my thoughts on the current Behind MOTU interviews:

  - The questions right now are a bit boring, they always were repetitive
    and were never tailored to who was interviewed. Maybe it's worth
    revisit this.

Well, when it comes to me, I'm going to to keep the basic outline, buttailor the questions specifically to the interviewee's background andtheir primary work in Ubuntu. I'd encourage others to do the same.

  - Right now only MOTUs are interviewed, but in our recent development
    world we have lots of new developers that join our ranks not
    exclusively through MOTU any more. Maybe Behind MOTU should be
    rebranded?

We'd need a new name for that. :) "Behind Ubuntu Universe"? A bit long?If we do rename Behind MOTU, we (read: I, if there are no othervolunteers) could pay for a top-level domain and have behindmotu.w.oredirect there.

Speaking of rebranding, someone I know complained that Behind MOTU usedthe default WordPress theme, so I changed it to an option more to myliking. I also tried changing the header background from black toorange, but sadly modifying CSS requires a yearly fee.

To reduce email spam, I've also created a team with a mailing list, andadded Daniel, David, and Nigel to it. https://launchpad.net/~behindmotuI will relinquish ownership to whoever should actually lead it. Next Ineed to figure out how to set it as the WordPress contact email...