Welcome Luiz, Great timing. AOO3.4 is almost complete and planning is starting for upcoming releases.
For my part, I've recently joined the project and will be focusing on the user experience design and product direction. Your experience and background could be of huge assistance to the UX effort moving forward. Product design is a multidisciplinary activity, and your skills and experience are really impressive. I want to transform the AOO design approach to be more oriented around people, versus technology. I want to focus the strategic planning and design direction less on features, and more on how people use AOO in the context of their lives - multi-device, cloud and social and more... Your journalism background, and familiarity with how people use AOO could really help us tell stories that describe how people will continue to use AOO in a way that compliment their lives, where the technology is complimentary to the things they like to get done. Such stories are a great tool to communicate the product vision internally, and can also be used to validate design direction direction with end users I'll be looking to re-invigorate the UX sub-community moving forward. We'd love to have your support. Thoughts? Best regards, Kevin On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:36 AM, luizheli <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am Luiz Oliveira, a journalistfrom Brazil. I led for a time > the nationwide BrOffice users group. At the time we still had a > magazine[1] created to give tips on the use of OpenOffice.org suite / > BrOffice, designed by my friend Claudio Filho. I helped organize some > editions of the National BrOffice event held via videoconference with > the participation of up to 04 countries, along with other comrades here > in Brazil. I believe in the Apache OpenOffice project and want to > contribute to more Brazilians know it. > > [1] > http://wiki.broffice.org/raw-attachment/wiki/Zine/Edicoes/RB-ED017.pdf?format=raw > > rgds, > > Luiz Oliveira >
