Hi everyone! I've been out for the last two years, working on my Master's degree (M.S. in Scientific & Technical Communication) but I finally graduated earlier in May! My Master's capstone is "Usability Themes in Open Source Software" (which expanded on my earlier research project in free software & usability). If you're interested in reading it, the PDF and ebook versions are on my web page. <http://www.freedos.org/jhall/>
But I'm not quite done yet! I'm currently writing a version of my capstone project that I'll submit to the Journal of Usability Studies. I think I can get three articles out of it: the usability study & results, using a heat map to display usability results, and a lit review of usability in free / open source software. And both Linux Journal and Linux Voice said they would like to run a version of my article, so I'm writing separate versions for them. The SourceForge folks also asked me to write an ongoing series of articles for their blog, about usability in free / open source software. I will be submitting proposals at free / open source software conferences in the next year, to talk about usability. I'm already confirmed for GUADEC'14 (If you live in/near Strasbourg, France and would like to grab a beer sometime July 26 - August 1, let me know!) So I'll be a little distracted with all of that for the rest of the summer. :-) But most importantly: I'm finally getting back to FreeDOS. I haven't read (much of) the mailing lists in the last two years, so it will take me a while to get back up to speed again. I already have a small list of FreeDOS projects that I want to work on. I know there are some areas of the website that need improvement (stale links, out of date web pages, etc). And SourceForge sent me a nice email the other day, warning me that they are stopping the Wiki service (which we use) so I need to find another home for that by June 19. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
