Raising my hand to help out here as discussed on the mailing list. I can put together an email draft of the questions working from the Details section above.

Email Draft for 2017 Top Badgers

Hello my name is Luis Roca and I'm a new member of the Fedora Project CommOps team.

We're reaching out to the top five badge earners of 2017 collecting interviews. Each interview will then become a featured article on the Fedora Community Blog, spread out over several weeks .[1]

To participate simply reply with your responses to the questions below:

1. You earned a lot of badges this year. For you, what was the most memorable badge and why?
2. Of the badges you earned this year, which one did you think was easiest?
   • Hardest?
3. What is your advice to either new or recent contributors who want to earn more badges?
   • Any tips to success?
4. What are you currently working on in the Fedora Project?
   • What can the community look forward to from you in 2018?

Thank you for your time and consideration

Luis Roca
Fedora Project member: CommOps, QA
https://pagure.io/user/roca
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Roca

Footnote
[1] Example Top Badgers feature published in 2016

@roca +1, this looks awesome! :thumbsup: Feel free to send this out to the top five badgers. If you need help finding email addresses, please ping us in IRC.

Have responses from two of five so far. Considering sending out an email nudge to the others with a deadline if they would like to participate. (Should have placed that in the original)

Would Monday the 26th of March be reasonable? Essentially giving the others the weekend to respond to the interview questions.

Luis

Top Badgers of 2017 Interview Drafts
- Alessio Ciregia
- Alberto Rodriguez Sanchez
- Fabio Valentini
- Carl George

Discussed in 2018-03-26 meeting.

We gave this a quick passover in the meeting, so some folks should take a peek in here to read.

@roca, once you are all finished, we usually request others to ask for review on the CommOps mailing list. Please write to the mailing list when you're finished and ready for final review too.

Thanks for all your time working on these already. :grin:

@roca @jflory7 i want to improve my answers. is this possible??

I answered @bt0dotninja's question in IRC – we can change the answers out any time before publishing. @bt0dotninja, you can email them in private to me and @roca and one of us can update your answers.

Posts reviewed and edited

Thanks @roca for the hard work on these! :raised_hands: I took an editing pass through all the articles and added an introduction block text to all of them. I also added some hyperlinks or fixed a few typos from the interviewees.

Publishing schedule

I think it would be cool to run this series one article a week for all of April. Tuesday is (generally) the best day of the week to publish, so I am spreading out all the articles from Tuesday, April 3 until Tuesday, April 24. Since we are still waiting for one more article (hopefully) from @haghighi, if we get that interview, we can add it to the schedule with no problem.

• Tuesday, April 03: Alessio Ciregia ( @alciregi )
• Tuesday, April 10: Alberto Rodriguez Sanchez ( @bt0dotninja )
• Tuesday, April 17: Fabio Valentini ( @decathorpe )
• Tuesday, April 24: Carl George ( @carlwgeorge )

Howdy everyone! Just looked at my preview, and I noticed an error.

As of the writing of this article, Alessio is the #267 all-time badge earner in Fedora.

Badge count is right, name is wrong. :grin:

@carlwgeorge said…
Badge count is right, name is wrong. 😁

Nice catch! Just edited and fixed it. :100:

The first article goes live tomorrow morning. Since all the posts we have so far are scheduled and done, I closing this ticket as complete.

If any changes or revisions need to be made for scheduled posts, add a comment here or get our attention in IRC to make an edit.

Nice work again, @roca!