Dear Developers, my name is Antonino Provenzano and I am student of Media & Computer Science. This semester I am writing a paper. I would like to interview several Developers as well as a survey and document developers' opinions about usability. In other words, I am interested in your experiences
*Objective:* I want to unterstand how an open source project like LibreOffice is organized. My main interest is on the communication between designer and developer. I want to figure out how the cooperation between these both positions works. Furthermore, I would like to know your opinion about the relationship between usability and Open Source. *Why I do this:* I love the idea of Open Source. I am involved in the Unix Group at the University of Kaiserslautern in Zweibrücken and in my spare time, I am working a lot with Open Source software. *How long does the survey take?* 5 - 10 Minutes Link: http://goo.gl/forms/p3n4uP6brSTD3cKz2 *The Interview:* If you are interested in an interview, because you want to tell me more about your opinion, feel free to write a private email to me. *How long does the interview take?* 15 – 20 minutes *The questions are:* - What is your motivation for working on LibreOffice? - How many hours per week do you work on LibreOffice? - Did you work on other Open Source projects before? - Why do you choose LibreOffice and not another Open Source project? - Are there any differences between LibreOffice and other project(s)? - Do you see Usability experts as a fully-fledged and accepted Member in the Software development? - Are you driven by the motivation to fix or improve program code because of usability problems experienced personally, discovered in tests or are you not interested in such challenges? - Do you always consider usability, when do you make software development decision? - How would you describe your current knowledge about usability? - Which recommendations can you give to a person who is starting to work in the LibreOffice project as a developer? - If you had one wish to improve LibreOffice, what would it be? Thank you for your patience. Kind regards Antonino Provenzano
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