2009/12/16 Brian Cameron <brian.came...@sun.com>: > I would like to announce the GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest planned for > February 22-26, 2010 in London, England. > > This is an exciting opportunity for GNOME Usability to take a step > forward and this hackfest will provide the GNOME Usability team an > opportunity to focus, set goals, and accomplish work to prepare the > GNOME community for the GNOME 3.0 transition and the future.
As already discussed with Brian Cameron and David Flanders, there is a great opportunity to hook up this event with the JISC Dev8D developer event that is happening in London at the same time. http://www.dev8d.org OSS Watch are very interested in forging links between open projects as part of our support services to UK HE projects. So we're looking for ideas for how to develop some positive synergy and how develop this into the perfect opportunity for UK HE developers to learn about, use and and hack on GNOME projects, and visa-versa. Below I've listed some ideas for collaboration that have already been proposed by Brian and David and I've added a couple more ideas. * Organize a day when the GNOME Usability Team or community meets at the Dev8D venue to give a talk or session or hang out for or hack. The 27th looks like being a good day to encourage people from the GNOME Usability hackfest to attend the Dev8D conference as it is the day after the GNOME event. * The GNOME Foundation could provide some compelling speakers, presenters, or discussion topics on GNOME Usability or free software GUI usability in general. * Dev8D attendees could provide an introduction to HE research specific projects * OSS Watch will be running a workshop before the events that will provide an opportunity for learning about Wookie, the W3C Widget server that is now in the Apache Incubator. This means there will be people hacking on Wookie and widgets at Dev8D. * Eye gaze control using cheap web cams is a hot accessibility topic so it would be good to see some joint hacking on GNOME Mouse Trap and University of Cambridge Inference group's opengazer project; http://bit.ly/6iZqbr and http://bit.ly/GL9tJ (thanks to @pepperbox for the idea). So who has more ideas? -- Steve Lee OSS Watch - supporting open source in education and research http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk 2009/12/16 Brian Cameron <brian.came...@sun.com>: > > I would like to announce the GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest planned for > February 22-26, 2010 in London, England. > > This is an exciting opportunity for GNOME Usability to take a step > forward and this hackfest will provide the GNOME Usability team an > opportunity to focus, set goals, and accomplish work to prepare the > GNOME community for the GNOME 3.0 transition and the future. > > Details, goals, and instructions can be found on the Usability Project > London 2010 Wiki here: > > http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/London2010 > > If you plan on attending, please sign up in the Attendees section. > If you need assistance with travel costs, note the instructions > to follow the GNOME Travel Subsidy process on the Wiki page. > > Looking forward to seeing you in London! > > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > Usability mailing list > Usability@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability > _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
