Hi Matt, Looking forward to working with your students!
One thing that you might mention to your students that could help them: We've got a lot of bug reports in our bug tracking system that are blocked on needing UI/usability decisions (and good rationale). So I would encourage your students to browse the bug tracker to look for project ideas. Thanks, Bryce On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 02:22:39PM +0200, Lionel Dricot wrote: > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: free interaction design submission : Getting Things GNOME! > Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:10:06 -0400 > From: Matthew Jadud <[email protected]> > To: Lionel Dricot <[email protected]> > > Hi Lionel, > > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:57, Lionel Dricot <[email protected]> wrote: > > Gtg is now quite mature, popular (in the 10 recommandeds applications > for > > Ubuntu), packaged for most Linux distribution and with a very active > > community. > > That sounds excellent. I'm personally familiar with GTD, and GTG looks > like an excellent candidate. > > We're going to be starting the semester next week, and my rough plan > is as follows: > > 1. The students will do a rapid pass through the design and testing > process on a website project. > > 2. While rapidly touring the breadth of UI design and testing, we'll > learn about interacting with communities via IRC, blogs, mailing > lists, bug trackers, wikis, and the like. > > 3. My expectation is that they will look at the available projects and > begin approaching the communities/projects they're most interested in > working with by mid-to-late September, and we will then use the > remainder of the semester to focus in on software UIs. > > While I have taught this kind of course before, it is the first time > I've experimented with putting it in the context of a living, open > source project. That said, I want to be clear: I'm well aware of how > open source software development works, and the students will be, too. > We do not believe our contributions will *necessarily* result in > changes in your project. We only ask for the opportunity to work in a > community context where the students' explorations will not come as a > surprise, and their work will be given a bit of consideration along > the way. And who knows: they might decide to keep working on the > project past the end of the term, which I would consider a win for all > involved! > > My most sincere thanks. I'll drop a note in about a week's time > pointing you at the (hopefully up-to-date) course website, and let you > know how we're getting on. > > Cheers, > Matt > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gtg-contributors > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gtg-contributors > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gtg-contributors Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gtg-contributors More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
