From kde-usability Thu Feb 24 19:37:05 2005 From: Jan Muehlig Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:37:05 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: usability sprint at SF Message-Id: <421E2CE1.2060304 () relevantive ! de> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=110927383607211 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--===============1468736519==" This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --===============1468736519== Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/x-pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; boundary="------------ms030901040306060203020406" This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms030901040306060203020406 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit As it happened, I attended the FLOSS usability sprint in San Francisco last weekend. There were about 40 participants, amongst which were 6 or 8 usability people (including me) and open source developers. All in all it was a very interesting happening, although the projects present were rather web based (have a look at http://www.flossusability.org/wiki.pl?FrontPage). The basic idea was to gather OSS projects and usability people together and to improve the applications during this time, thus having a before/after (this is my impression which may differ from others). If only code were touched, hack fest or coding marathon would be the analogy. Here were really excellent usability people (excluding me, of course), like the head of ui of oracle, Luke Kowalski, or Peter Trudelle from Mozilla (have a look at http://www.iol.ie/~calum/chi2002/peter_trudelle.txt). This idea was really great, although a lot of time was lost by understanding what the problems really were. I guess next time this will be dealt with in advance. Since most developers of the projects involved were paid, they do not reflect typical OSS projects in their broad range. However, there were some very interesting outcomes that may be generalized to OSS usability, and useful for KDE. I hope to find the peace to write about this in the next days. Also, a lot of resources will be bundled, like methods, check-lists and so on, and availabe. Concluding, I consider it a great idea to do such a sprint. I am very much looking forward to Malaga ... perhaps there will be more outcome and action than in Ludwigsburg. 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