The Raspberry Pi Guy Interviews Clive & Gordon
Last month we put out a call for questions for our education and engineering teams. Matt Timmons-Brown, aka The Raspberry Pi Guy, was given the chance to interview Clive Beale who heads up our education team; and Gordon Hollingworth who heads up software engineering.
We hope you find that fills a few gaps and enjoyed hearing from us at Pi Towers. Thanks to Matt for filming and a great job editing.
12 comments
Dougie
Next time someone interviews Clive, can they ask more about Minecraft? The current version of Minecraft Pocket Edition (from which we got the Pi version) is getting a bit long in the tooth. When are we going to get an update with some new features, new blocks, new mob creatures, better graphics, etc.?
Ben Nuttall — post author
We just got over the hurdle of getting it packaged (
apt-get install minecraft-pi) and licensed to be pre-installed in Raspbian. We’ve also been working on a proposal for a future edition, particularly enhancements which will benefit its use in education. Watch this space. Or do something else, whatever.clive
We love Minecraft on the Pi and it’s one of our educational focuses, there’s lots going on and we have lots of plans — just can’t talk about all of them at the moment. So yes – watch this space!
Ravenous
Good updates (or at least hints) from both, thanks to The Guy for posting.
Also it’s the first time I’ve ever seen anyone answer one of those “Desert island” questions properly! Typical engineers…
MarkTheMorose
Interesting, but constantly distracted by the interviewer and interviewee both being afflicted with the ‘So…’ disease, whereby they start almost every sentence with the word ‘So’.
Sorry.
Ben Nuttall — post author
So…
Well he’s 15 years old so I give him the benefit of the doubt.
And as for Gordon… he’s an engineer. Not used to talking to people.
The Raspberry Pi Guy
As problems go it isn’t really the biggest one is it?
You’ll find that I don’t talk like that normally – I just think that it was the nature of the interview.
The Raspberry Pi Guy
Ravenous
Heh I think the “So…” disease is a newer version of the “Erm…” disease which afflicts my own speaking. Don’t fight it, let it take you :)
Andrew Gale
So what?
Oops… done it myself!
Scot
So how will microsoft buying mojang influence minecraft on pi?
Ben Nuttall — post author
It’s too early to say for sure, but we imagine it won’t affect our free edition.
AndrewS
600-page documentation sounds fairly hefty!
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