On Friday 30 December 2005 08:50, Daisuke Kameda wrote: > So, in my personal opinion, I hope to cooperate with you about taking > up the end users' proposal in various countries. I think that I try to > carry out the activity which takes up the Japanese end users' proposal.
it would be interesting to have a Japanese perspective on things. Asian
involvement with open source (outside of using it) is abysmally low and
anything that can help that would be great.
> In the concrete, I think that it is better to build Bug Tracking System
> for accepting the proposal (e.g. about usability) from end users.
i have to admit that i'm not convinced that end users have the best ideas for
usability proposals because:
- they lack expertise in the area and so end up suggesting things of low
value. it's not much different from asking them to design the data structures
of the program; if you don't have experience and expertise in the matter,
your input is often errant.
- they can't implement them so we end up with a large number of different
ideas (sometimes conflicting) but no actual implementations.
i do think that having user input in the form of usability testing, gathering
use cases and requirements (this is different than proposed solutions), etc
is very valuable.
> And,
> it is desirable that they can submit by the native language as much as
> possible.
who would translate the native language messages so i and other developers can
read them? this is the major problem here.
what might be best here is if a Japenese regional group for KDE (and perhaps
the larger open source desktop) was formed where the Japanese perspective can
be discussed in Japanese and then the overall results can be communicated
back in English to the KDE development community. such a regional group could
also be a way to find and encourage Japanese developers to get more involved
with KDE development (allowing for "scratching one's own itch" to come into
pay), help spread adoption of KDE in Japan and generally grow the Japanese
KDE community.
this is essentially what happened last month in India:
http://dot.kde.org/1134244310/
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