The interview was done in April 14. The questions was sent to the e-mail. I got a reply after two weeks.
Premislaus: Hi! Let me start with the traditional question. Could you introduce yourself and say how old you are, where are you from, and what do you do on a daily basis? And as you've come to the Haiku project?
mmadia: Hi. I'm Matt Madia and use 'mmadia' as my online handle. I'm 2^5 years old and live in New Jersey, USA. For a day job, I work as a electrician with a trade union. My path to the Haiku® project started back in June of 2001. That's when I first installed BeOS® R5. For some years following that BeOS was my primary operating system. As you can imagine, that eventually led me to Haiku, which has since become my primary OS.
Premislaus: Could you tell how it happened, that you became the project leader? I was not then associated with the project, but I know that your predecessor was Michael Phipps. What can you tell us about him? What do you think of his departure? And if you had to compare with him, what are the differences in your project management?
mmadia: First, I am not "the project leader".
In open source projects, take Haiku for example, I don't think there is ever one single decisive leader. The viewpoints of numerous people, who contribute the greatest, tend to carry more weight. If one wanted to, those people could be labeled "project leaders".
