As part of the FOSDEM preparations for later this month, the organization has posted three interviews with Alexander Larsson (Nautilus & GnomeVFS maintainer), Matthias Ettrich (creator of KDE & Lyx, now at Trolltech) and Oliver Fourdan (creator of XFce).
Interviews with Gnome, KDE, XFce Developers
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would love to see an interview from GNUstep developer(s).
The interview with oliver seemed pretty short, but i wasn’t interested in the others so i can’t compare them. Also wanted to know what he thinks about xffm and if he actually uses it or uses rox like the rest of us. ;-p
I wanna hear how the “fast e17 development” is going now… I’ve used a cvs build from not too long ago, I don’t consider it usable for myself yet but it LOOKS very cool.
I’m a huge fan of e16, I just hope e17 retains the level of usability e16 posseses!
FOSDEM is interviewing people who will be SPEAKING at the event, not random people. If the gnustep or E17 devs are not scheduled to speak at the event, they won’t get interviewed. Duh.
I wanna hear how the “fast e17 development” is going now… I’ve used a cvs build from not too long ago, I don’t consider it usable for myself yet but it LOOKS very cool.
(Agreed but thats how it were announced as well.)
If you want to interview him,
1) Mail him and ask if he wants to give an interview. Tell him for who you make the interview (affiliation?).
2) Prepare your questions. If they’re interesting enough then he’ll probably be fine with it (you should do this before you even think of wanting an interview! people who are interviewed also like it when you show you know a bit about their work.).
3) Arrange to meet on a ‘direct’ chat e.g. not e-mail but IRC or IM (this works faster and its more ‘live’. You’re still able to cut stuff out if needed or e.g. using [brackets] to make a related comment which won’t be used).
done it before. Works fine…
plus remember: haven’t tried == failed.
Well then there should be a GNUStep interview, they are going after all…
I take that back, I haven’t found them on the speakers and haven’t found the mail on the list I thought I’ve seen.
Why did Oliver get asked about E17? That’s almost (but not quite) like asking Bill Gates “Hey I hear Syllable 0.5.6 is coming along very well, Waddya think ’bout that?”
Did the interviewer think Enlightenment and Xfce were the same?
– Peder
Damn weird… ask the XFCE guys about E17… hehehehe
He probably asked because XFCE’s light desktop approach and Enlightenment’s shell approach are similar. The thinking being that since they have some things in common there might be…
Seems like this Journalist even dont know anythink about hi ask…
I agree with you, this question gave me the same feeling:
“FOSDEM – In your opinion, what is the most important feature in a window manager? Lightness, functionnality, speed or design?”
“Olivier Fourdan – Xfce is not a window manager, but “xfwm4″ is. This said, it really depends on the component you are referring to….”