Alan Horkin wrote: >> On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Philip Van Hoof wrote: > >>> > >>> > What is the status of cooperation between you guys and the guys at >>> > openusability.org? >>> > >>> > Have you guys spoken with each other? > >> >> Sort of ... not really So here we go: Hi, I'm Ellen from OpenUsability :) >>> > Are you guys planning to do >>> > this in a (near) future? > >> >> Me personally, yes probably if only to see what they are up to. They seem >> to be helping the KDE developers quite a bit and presenting their work in >> a way developers are more receptive to which is something I think I may >> have been failing to do recently (or it could just be Gnome developers >> dont like my suggestions). Yes, our work with KDE is quite fruitful. Basically, we are doing two things: Supporting single KDE projects that sign up there, and at the same time we are trying to provide standards how to improve the overall usability of KDE. However, OpenUsability was never meant to be a KDE related project, they just happened to be the first to show interest in it :) Our actual aim is to bundle OSS usability efforts, to learn from related projects' experiences, to apply results from usability studies to all projects the issues are of interest for. That's what 'Open' is about, no? During the last months, more and more non-KDE projects registered, e.g. several web content management systems, Anjuta, Alexandria and lately the GIMP. Unfortunately, and as Calum stated, the platform is far from supporting those processes. But we are currently developing a number of tools which will allow for a better collaboration within and between projects. For example, we are using NX technology to give usability people access to the current development versions of applications so they won't have to compile them themselves (the latter turned out to be the highest barrier when getting usability people involved with OSS). Furthermore, we are planning an issue tracker, similar to a bug tracking-system but including usability-related data such as links to videos from test sessions, written results of usability tests, use cases relevant for an issue etc. The issues are going to be categorized to allow for cross-project reference. Developers needed!! ;-) Last saturday, I heard Mark Shuttleworth talking about collaboration between different OSS projects, why it is important and how it will increase the power of OSS. Basically the same talk he held at Guadec in Stuttgart. He never mentioned usability - I wonder why?! Greetings, /el -- Ellen Reitmayr www.openusability.org www.kdedevelopers.org/blog/931
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