Where: San Francisco, California and online (mailing list, wiki, IRC)
Who should attend: developers, usability experts, and users of specific nonprofit open source projects
See: www.flossusability.org
"The goals of the Usability Sprint are:
* To build community between users, developers/programmers, and usability experts: Individuals working in usability and open source rarely have an opportunity to convene, grow relationships and collaborate on applied projects. This sprint will provide a venue for enhancing the social network of these different practitioners while focusing on concrete outcomes.
* To attract usability experts to actual non-profit-focused FLOSS projects: While there is a substantial usability community focused on proprietary and for-profit software realm, little has been done to date to bring similar focus to bear in the non-profit software sector.
* To survey and design usability methodologies: Participants will develop methodologies for improving the usability of open source software that addresses the unique challenges of distributed software development in a nonprofit context. These methodologies will be publicized and can be applied to and evolved in future projects beyond this sprint.
* To apply the learnings on a real software project: Participants will apply that methodology on specific open source advocacy platforms. This will create immediate value for important open source projects, and will enable participants to refine the methodologies based on real experience.
"
Press release: http://www.flossusability.org/press.html
All the best Jacqueline McNally Lead, OpenOffice.org Marketing Project
--------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
