Hi Brynn,
and I'll get to work right away, if you want me to.
- Great :)
If you want me to, is this the correct list of attendees?
Bryce Tav Josh Jabier Krzysztof Alex Amelia insaner/Raphael
- Yep, those seem to be the right people to ask. Mail addresses should be those from the mailing list, or if you can't find them, just ask.
I guess there will be no problems contacting them through their list address? Was the agenda outlined here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2015_Topics, fairly well adhered to? Or did things end up going out to other topics as well. I'm thinking of using that as a starting place to compose what questions I want to ask. Although I will also ask each attendee what their unique focus or contribution was, and ask a question or 2 on that. On that wiki page, it looks like some info has been updated since the hackfest, although I have not learned how to read the wiki history (in a really meaningful way) yet. But are some results of the hackfest already mentioned there? In Martin's first msg, he said, "Jabier has provided some information, but no one's stepped forward to help author/edit the idea." Where is that info? Do you mean it's to be included? Or the main idea is just 'write a review/article'? When looking at that 2015 Topics wiki page, it's hard to image writing such a short article as 200 to 400 words (because explaining complex things in simple language sometimes needs a lot of words). Can it go long? Or is that a fairly strict limit?
- It doesn't need to be long, and no, it's not a strict limit. It will be on the website sooner when it is shorter ;).
The technical details will be mentioned in Tav's report in-depth, and there will also be that interview with Mairin Duffy / Bryce. This article is for the 'normal', non-technical user to see where their generous donations went to be used. It should also talk a bit about the social aspects, and about exciting new things/improvements that were 'triggered' by the event (accessibility, extensions, roadmap, community development, fixing bugs, and under the hood: switch of test framework, switch of build environment,...), and about the boost it seems to have given to the dev community. (you could ask them what it was like to meet for the first time, for example. Jabier has a good story for this, I think) A photo would be cool, too...
Regards, Maren