On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 19:27 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: > Hey all, > > > I've just started the project for my MSc course in Applied Computing > and am in need of some guinea pigs to help design and test it. I'm > going to be working on it between now and Monday 12th September, when > my thesis is to be submitted, and I'm going to be using the > user-centred design [1] methodology and will be looking for people to > provide feedback regularly between now and the submission deadline. > > > The project will be to implement a 'Continuous Client', where the move > from one computing device to another is streamlined by saving your > session on one computer, syncing it to a location in the cloud, and > restoring it on another. Reader of Engadget will probably be familiar > with this concept [2]. I'm planning on building an open source version > of this that will allow the user to use Ubuntu One sync their session > from one Ubuntu computer to another, with Windows machines eventually > being added to the mix. It's not going to cover every single > application in the Software Centre, but it will support a few of the > default apps shipped with Ubuntu. In the beginning, this will include > LibreOffice writer, Firefox and Empathy, with the option to expand to > other LibreOffice apps if time permits.
Sounds interesting! I'll go register with the team then :-) Cheers, Bruno -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
