Hello All, Thanks for the input. Here is what I'm hearing...
- project acknowledges that design matters, this is great - interest in UX-related activities and supporting discussion is high - UX community, is just restarting, and is still growing it's numbers - development would prefer to have visibility into the design conversation - design and development need to work together - if a ux mailing list were created, it should only be a tool as part of a broader UX community development strategy - ux planning is different that a design conversation Some good thoughts here. Thanks for sharing. Based on this feedback here are some thoughts and proposal to move forward, - to keep design and development working closely on the enhancement of our current offering, and to work together on the design direction of future release let's continue to use ooo-dev for user experience discussions - given our limited UX resources, this is less effort, and requires less co-ordination, admin and maintenance - we will continue to tag subject lines - we can shrink our current tag from [USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN] to [UX] - we can also add secondary tags to make the subject lines easier for ooo-dev subscribes to scan and parse - some examples: [PROPOSAL][UX] [UX][PLANNING] [UX][RESEARCH] [UX][DESIGN] [UX][REQUEST FOR DESIGN FEEDBACK] etc... - we will try to make the tags simple, understandable and align with the information architecture of our UX wiki, so it is obvious where information comes from and where it needs to go - we will try to standardize this tags, and publish this information to allow people to create email rules - we will iterate on this process and we move forward - the UX community can identify resources to ensure that all UX related threads are addressed, like a sub-moderator - we'd request that the formal ooo-dev moderators keep us honest on this activity ;) - I volunteer to assume this responsibility moving forward Thoughts? Feedback welcome. In the interim, I will continue to update the AOO UX wiki, and start to promote our open activities and seek volunteers. Regards, Kevin On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Donald Harbison <dpharbi...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Wednesday, May 16, 2012, Dave Fisher wrote: > > > > > > > > On May 16, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > > > > > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Kevin Grignon > > > <kevingrignon...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote: > > >> Hello All, > > >> > > >> I would like to propose the creation of an > > >> ooo-ux@incubator.apache.orgmailing list. > > >> > > >> The frequency of UX-related discussions are increasing, and interest > in > > the > > >> UX community is growing. > > >> > > > > > > From what I can tell, creating a new mailing list by itself does > > > nothing to increase activity level in an area. We can look at the > > > ooo-marketing and ooo-qa lists for examples of lists that were > > > created, but then nothing much happened. They are buckets, not > > > communities. And they never reached a critical mass of participation. > > > At least not yet. > > > > Please keep discussing UX here on ooo-dev. Everyone is interested. > > > +1 Suggest subj title [USX] here for all topics within User Experience > space. > > > > Regards, > > Dave > > > > > > > > But we have other lists that have been successful. Some of the native > > > language lists, for example have done quite well. > > > > > > So if you do go for a separate UX list, I'd highly recommend that you > > > couple it with some outreach and recruitment plan that goes beyond the > > > participants on the ooo-dev list. Maybe a blog post would help, > > > something that we can promote via our other tools (social media, > > > announcement list, etc.) to bring new interested parties to the new > > > list. > > > > > > -Rob > > > > > >> It's time to create a mailing list to focus the conversation, and > > channel > > >> our creative energy ;) > > >> > > >> I volunteer to be a moderator, and would welcome a few others to join > > me. > > >> > > >> I am a Certified User Experience Professional with 15 years experience > > >> leading, managing and delivering user experience projects. > > >> > > >> Regards, > > >> Kevin > > >> > > >> AOO User Experience Designer > > > > >
