Hi Jared,
Mimi and I participated in the first event -- Chandler was one of the
six projects that did a testing sprint. I found it to be a pretty
dynamic, interesting group of people. We're looking into participating
in the next one.
Cosmo/Scooby might be a good project for this sprint -- I think they are
particularly interested in tackling design problems for early stage
projects.
One of the goals of the group is to get open source folks to connect
with user experience folks. At the first sprint there was a fair amount
of discussion time to try and connect the sprint experiences to larger
issues facing open source usability.
Cheers,
Katie
Jared Rhine wrote:
Perhaps some OSAF people will be interested in this event. I have no
personal experience with this group.
----- Forwarded message from Eugene Eric Kim -----
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 16:04:41 -0700
From: Eugene Eric Kim
Subject: [sprint] FLOSS Usability Sprint II: Extreme Usability
Hi folks,
It's official: We're doing "FLOSS Usability II: Extreme Usability"
later this month, August 22-24, 2005 in San Francisco, California.
http://www.flossusability.org/
The event will be slightly different in focus than our last sprint.
We'll be focusing on the notion of "Extreme Usability," which emerged
from the last sprint. The idea is that usability should happen
throughout the development cycle, ideally "pair programming" with the
developer and the usability practitioner. We're going to apply and
refine this methodology to early stage open source projects.
If you're a usability practitioner, open source developer, or user of
e-advocacy tools, and you'd like to participate, please fill out an
application at:
http://www.flossusability.org/cfp.html
We especially need usability practitioners. We encourage both past
participants and new ones!
Let me know if you have any questions, and feel free to post your
thoughts here on this list.
-Eugene
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