TFD Fellowship: Interview Prep

Stakeholder Groups

• jothon organizers
• project "leads"
• project "members"
• g0v members abroad/intl
• g0v member representing non-Taipei perspective

Resources to review before interviews:

• Composites Collective interviews
• Sunflower movement interviews by Brian Hioe (or resulting report)
  • https://newbloommag.net/
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Potential Interview Questions

• What was your experience as a new member of your group?
  • What is the current experience of a new member to your group? How has it changed?
• Do you feel like you have learned things from other g0v projects? If so, what?
• Are you aware of how other projects are run?
• Are you interested in how g0v as a community operates?
• I feel ________ the g0v community. (likert scale)
  • connected to
  • ownership of
  • gratitude toward
• How do you identify in the work that you do? Coder? Techie? Organizer? Designer?
• Do you identify with "civic tech"?
• How did you begin to participate in ________?
  • social movements
  • g0v community
  • your project
• What does the term "_______" mean to you?
  • jothon
  • civic tech
  • g0v
  • diversity
  • g0v organizer
  • g0v member
• Do you feel that g0v is connected to international communities? If so, how?
• In your opinion, is gov a local Taipei movement? A national movement? An international movement? Why do you feel this way?
• What are your thoughts on diversity in the g0v community? What does diversity mean in the context of g0v?
• Do you feel that you are part of a marginalized group? (alt: "minority group")
  • #todo ask about best word to use
• What do you feel are the values of g0v?
• Do you feel personally aligned with the values as you understand them?
• Is there anyone else who you think I should speak with to better understand the unique aspects of the g0v community?
  • (after suggesting persons) Why?
• TOPIC: How do different community members understand the story of g0v?
  • What is your understanding of the origin of g0v?
• What do you feel are the largest impacts that g0v has had?
  • How do you feel that g0v’s ____ has changed over time? If so, how?
    • activity
    • size
    • impact
  • What influence do you feel that g0v jothons have had?
• How does leadership succession work in g0v?
• How does g0v protect from centralization? Does it do this effectively?
• How common is it for g0v members to be interested in the "meta" thinking of community-building?
• How do you think people outside Taipei, technical or otherwise, feel about g0v (if anything)?
• What is the role of Facebook in holding g0v community together?
• Did activists abandon civic hackers of g0v after the Sunflower Movement?
• How does g0v decide and reevaluate it’s identity and values? Has it ever done this? If so, how was it done in the past? Will this work in the future? Do you have thoughts on whether this is important, or how it could be done?
  • How important is/was audrey to vTaiwan? To g0v? Would they be different without her? If so, how?
• How do you feel about Audrey going into government?
  • When do you feel the effects of this approach might manifest?
• Would you ever work in _______? Under what circumstances? Or if not, why?
  • government
  • gov tech (private)
  • other private sector
• Was music a big part of the sunflower movement? Is it a big part of g0v?
  • chtonic
• jothon
  • have there been poor experiences with opening floodgates with any 
• what other communities do you feel affiliated with?
  • LGBT+
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• TERMINOLOGY:
  • impact: influence, significance, power

Interview format

• Introduction
  • Who am I

Misc Resources

• Social Physics: Notes by CHE WEI LIU
  • https://g0v.hackpad.tw/ep/pad/static/OjMwoZa30ks
• Translation
  • Record system audio
    • https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Recording_Computer_Playback_on_Mac#soundflower
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