Gimp may be a case for open design for os project. --jarod
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:51:22, Andy Polaine <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Andrew - not snarky at all. I felt sure something was probably > happening somewhere, but I hadn't see it. > > The hardest part, as I see it, is moving from a kind of shared > knowledge environment, like a wiki/whiteboard, into something more > akin to the kind of versioning that open-source development projects > commonly used. > > As people have mentioned before, the versioning needs to not lose or > kill off half-formed ideas but have some way of incorporating them > until they're further developed and ready to be more clearly > specified to a point where they're useful for, well, for who? > That's also a question - developers? Users? Other designers? > > Or it may be that the kind of versioning mindset we're used to > seeing in software development projects *isn't* the right way to go > about an open-source ux/ixd process. I think it's worth us all > thinking broader and drawing upon other ways of working. Music making > is one thing that comes to mind here. I'm sure there are others. > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38371 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- Sent from my mobile device http://designforuse.blogspot.com/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
