interviews.md

Interviews

DEFNA interviews is a collaborative effort to gather information from people who have been involved in organizing Django events. These interviews are aimed at helping other community members who would like to organize events and would like to hear stories about how to do this.

Here we will document questions and guidelines to follow when conducting these interviews. Hopefully, this will help current and future DEFNA Board members as well as anybody else who's looking for ideas on how to conduct interviews.

Technologies to use

• Zoom: Depending on the account type you might be able to record the interview.
• Google Hangouts: If the interview is a live webcast you can record it.
• Recording locally:
  • OSX:
    • soundflower (Free) should help with recording locally and audacity
    • vlc (Free)
    • OBS Studio (Free)
  • Linux:
    • vlc (Free)
    • audacity (Free)
    • OBS Studio (Free)
• Video Editing:
  • OSX:
    • iMovie (Free)
• Video Compressing:
  • OSX:
    • Handrake (Free)
  • Linux:
    • Handrake (Free)

Before the interview

• Ask the interviewee to say their name and a small introduction. For example:
  • Which event have you been (or are) involved in?
  • Tell us about your hobbies.
  • What do you do for a living?