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Got some responses this morning so will start posting them on the blog (on days where there are no other announcements).

First one is online: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2016/06/14/libreoffice-developer-interview-muhammet-kara/

Second interview online: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2016/06/27/libreoffice-developer-interview-xisco-fauli/

Some more to come.

Next one is online: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2016/07/06/libreoffice-developer-interview-laurent-balland-poirier/

I'm talking to Olivier and Heiko about having interviews with documentation and design people too, and not just coders.

A new interview online, this time with a new contributor: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2016/07/12/libreoffice-developer-interview-krishna-keshav/

Next interview is up: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2016/07/19/libreoffice-developer-interview-winfried-donkers/

Michael Meeks suggests adding more background questions (rather than just technical LO ones) to make contributors feel especially valued, and part of a big community with mutual interests and understanding:

• Programming is about people: so please tell us a bit about yourself: Name / IRC nick / Nationality / Location / Timezone / Family details / Blog link / Interesting hobbies or passions

• What was your very first program?

• What do you do when you're not hacking on LibreOffice?

• When do you usually spend time on the project?

• Which is your preferred text editor? And why?

• Did you work on Free Software projects before LibreOffice?

• What Operating System do you use mainly?

• How did you hear about LibreOffice?

• What was your first contribution to LibreOffice?

• What was your initial experience of contributing to LibreOffice like?

• What do you think was your most important contribution to LibreOffice
  so far?

• How will that improve things for users?

• What is your vision for the future and/or what would you most like to
  see improved?

• Anything else interesting you get up to when not hacking?

• What other question would you like to answer (with answer)?

The next contributor interview is now online: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2016/08/24/libreoffice-contributor-interview-franklin-weng/

I added the questions Michael Meeks suggested (great ideas, thanks!), and I also sent out interview questions to 10 other contributors yesterday. Responses are already coming in, so we should have a backlog to keep the blog busy for the next couple of months.

Added a DLP interview: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2016/09/26/document-liberation-project-interview-alex-pantechovskis/

But there will be a bit of a break now in October and probably November, as we have the Community Weeks and Month of LibreOffice. I have a backlog of interviews though so can run some in November if it gets quiet.

New interview online: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2017/01/10/libreoffice-contributor-interview-hazel-russman/

Still have a few to use, and have started sending out emails to other contributors to get more responses.

Continuing with video interviews that I did at FOSDEM:

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2017/03/28/video-interview-heiko-tietze-libreoffice-ux-mentor/

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2017/04/08/video-interview-xisco-fauli-qa-engineer-libreoffice/

Still plenty more to come -- I'm trying to find enough time each week to edit and upload at least one.

Another video interview online today:

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2017/05/02/video-interview-michael-meeks-libreoffice-developer/

Thorsten Behrens interview online:

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2017/05/10/video-interview-thorsten-behrens-libreoffice-developer/

Still some more to come from FOSDEM (Olivier Hallot, Florian Effenberger, Italo Vignoli...)

Shall we merge #1919, #2089 and #2144 to one general social media ticket?