Re: [Usability] Fwd: FLOSS and usability workshop at CHI 2010

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

I'm just writing up the Q4 Usability team report for Stormy, and wondering if anybody submitted a paper for this that I could mention? (I'd hoped to, but didn't quite get around to it :/)

Thanks,
Calum.

On 6 Nov 2009, at 21:00, Stormy Peters wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Paula Bach <pbach illinois edu>
> Date: Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 1:47 PM
> Subject: FLOSS and usability workshop at CHI 2010
> To: stormy gnome org
> 
> 
> Hi Stormy,
> 
> I thought you'd like to know about this workshop I am organizing with a
> colleague who also does research with open source and usability. Please
> forward the call to people in the GNOME community who might be interested.
> 
> Thanks,
> Paula
> 
> ========================================================================
>                       ACM CHI 2010 Workshop on
>                Free/Libre/Open Source Software and HCI
> 
>                     April 11, 2010, Atlanta, GA, USA
> 
>                   Submission deadline: December 14, 2009
>                         http://flosshci.org
> ========================================================================
> 
> In the past 10 years, Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) has become a
> ubiquitous and vital force in business, education, government, and research.
> This vibrant new community of software developers creates new opportunities
> and challenges for HCI that are only beginning to be explored and
> understood.
> 
> This workshop will:
> * identify key differences between FLOSS environments and closed source
> software production with respect to culture, practices, and motivations for
> HCI,
> * examine how these differences can (or should) impact the design of tools
> and practices for usability/UX in FLOSS development, and
> * explore the development of new theoretical approaches, tools, and
> practices for HCI in the FLOSS community.
> 
> An important, overarching goal of the workshop is to bring the two
> communities together to explore collaboration opportunities. As such, the
> workshop invites practitioners and researchers in both the CHI and FLOSS
> communities.
> 
> Interested individuals should submit one of the following in a two-page
> conference publication format:
> 
> * A case study describing experiences in introducing and/or practicing
> usability/UX in a FLOSS development context
> * A summary of research conducted in the FLOSS community related to the
> workshop’s theme (for example, understanding motivations of designers in
> FLOSS, mapping design conversations, design tools and methods used in FLOSS,
> etc.)
> 
> Submissions should use the HCI Archive Format template found here:
> http://www.chi2010.org/authors/format.html#archiveformat
> 
> Deadline for submissions is December 14, 2009. Submissions should be emailed
> to flosshci gmail com 
> 
> More information about the workshop can be found at the workshop website:
> http://flosshci.org. Questions about the workshop can be directed to
> flosshci gmail com 
> 
> Workshop organizers:
> Paula Bach (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
> Michael Terry (University of Waterloo, Canada)
> 
> 
> Paula Bach
> Computing Innovation Postdoctoral Research Fellow
> Graduate School of Library and Information Science
> University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
> http://cscl.ist.psu.edu/public/users/pbach/index.html
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