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Hello Sean,

I have prepared the questions I would like to ask Mr. Sayol for an interview. How would you like me to send these to him?

Thank you,

Gala

His contact information is in our HACKING file, contained within all distributions of BRL-CAD (and available online, just do a search).  You can contact him via e-mail.

If the article goes well enough, we have a follow-up task too.  Let me know if you run into any problems.

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Gala, your article looks good.  I would have like to have seen some more write-up from you based on the interview or quotes of his intermixed with an article from you, but it's not bad as it is.  I would suggest changing "BRL-CAD News (BCN)" to something else.  You're the interviewer, so perhaps you can introduce yourself say a couple sentences about your participation in GCI and what you think about the program.  Then it can be your initials instead of BCN.  You do need to at least credit yourself as the author on the second line (by Gala...).

The other remaining issue is that the article needs to be added to our CPP too: 

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Hi Sean,

Thanks for the feedback. I want to expand this into an article as you suggested, however I have my SATs in the morning. So, I will not be able to put substantial time into this until tomorrow afternoon. I'm also going to follow up with Mr. Sayol, and see if I can get a few more facts for the article.

Thank you for your time and help!

Hi Sean,

I have submitted an updated version to CPP Final Editorial Review section.

Please take a look and let me know if you would like further revisions.

I left the original "Introduction to new .deb and .rpm builds" top in the Idea Hopper, but since my article is intended to cover that topic, we should probably remove that placeholder - which I will do, pending acceptance of my article.

Thank you!

-- Gala

Gala, your work is awsome. It is appeciable that you followed Sean's suggestions  and made some changes but what it seems to me that your article looks more like an interview. Interview was to be used as tool to collect information. However, as I already stated above, your work is appericiable. :)

But as you mentioned in your comment on 30 November 2012 22:28 UTC, you should expand it something more like an article. Also try to add little more details (may be technical) about this process if you have any.

I will extend the deadline for one day. 

Good luck... :)

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Hi Sean and Harmanpreet,

I think I must be in over my head. :)

   I think everyone has been really nice and helpful and patient, but I have basically spent a week on this one project, and I do not seem to understand enough to write the thorough article that you are looking for right now. I would like to unclaim this task so that someone else who is better suited to do it can have it, and I will look for another open source task where I can better contribute using my skills.

Thanks again for all your time, help and encouragement!

~Gala

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John,

Since this task was already worked, write your article based on the question+answer responses from Gala's effort and post your article to our CPP.

Gala,

If you like, we can create a task to just interview Jordi since we obviously want you to get credit for your effort.  How does that sound?

Sean,

is there any pre-defined template for writing the article, or I'm free to choose the layout?

John, there's no template.  The article itself (i.e., the text written) is more important than the layout.  It should be informative and interesting, utilizing the questions and answers that Gala summarized.  There were more questions if you'd like to contact Jordi to get more responses.  Be sure to credit yourself and Gala in the final article.

Gala, this was created to credit your work: http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7966232

Sean,

I have already been working on an alpha version of the article (260 words). I've also sent a message to Jordi with a few more questions.

Is there any way I can show you what I've already done, or you prefer to wait until I finish?

I'm okay waiting until you're done. ;)

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John,

That looks fantastic, almost perfect.  Just a couple minor requests and this should be good to go:

1. remove the reference to the CPP, just refer to the interview informally or quote Gala directly.  the cpp is like going backstage, you don't talk about it.


2. include a direct quote from Jordi somewhere.  quotes really help an article stand out when you include him within your conversation.


3. add the article to our CPP

Thanks again, that's really great.

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John,

You did a remarkable work. Just make following corrections:

1) In 2nd paragraph, replace "in" to "on" at two places; as it is "based on" and not "based in".

2) In 3rd paragraph, replace "working in BRL-CAD" "working with BRL-CAD"

3) In 3rd paragraph, replace "with is advanced Linux experience as his only companion" with "with his Linux experience (as advanced user) as his only companion"

4) In 3rd paragraph, I suggest to rephrase following:

By that time, he started colaborating on-line with other BRL-CAD team members.

Also correct spelling of "collaborating".

5) In 4th paragraph; I suggest to change "Within such a massive project, with lots of code lines, he decided to take as his responsability the building of binary packages for Linux systems, since he's not a programmer" to "With such a massive project, which has millions of lines of code (LOC), he decided to take responsibility to build binary packages for Linux System, to put his skills to best use"

I stop here. You got the idea what type of changes I want. I could do it on my own, as all are of Editorial Type; but I stongly suggest to just read article, pretending yourself as teacher, and do all such corrections and modification.

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John, if you provide your full name, I'll gladly credit you in our authorship documentation accordingly.  Thank you for your efforts.  It's a great piece that we'll work to publish to our news outlets.

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