Hey GNOME / Usability folks :-) I am currently studying information design at Stuttgart Media University in Germany. In our 5th semester (October 2010 – February 2011), we are to go into practice. Being Ubuntu user, passionate about usability testing, interaction- / interface- / information design and interested in open source collaboration, I would like to work related to GNOME.
Our studies are mainly about researching, designing and testing with the user; contextual inquiry, eye-tracking and so forth. I am currently testing Ubuntu + GNOME with friends and family. ;-) I mainly experiment with panel layout, verbalisation of application names and visibility of system features / options. I try to get more into programming but my current love is usability testing and refining. I have personal experience with coding for the web (HTML, CSS, JS, PHP) but very little when it comes to higher languages. (I think really not enough to mention. I am planning on learning Ruby/Rails though.) You can find me and my work at http://inquata.com – I would love to get an internship related to GNOME. The time frame is a little restricting but working in a foreign (especially English-speaking) country will be no problem. As I do not have a good grasp of the organisational structures and the crucial points in GNOME yet, I would greatly appreciate a mentor from the community helping me get into it. :-) I am also wondering about Season of Usability <http://season.openusability.org>. GNOME participated in 2009; I am not sure what happened to the project (and openusability in general) as it seems to be inactive since almost a year. Thanks to Jono, Stormy and Brian for the help so far! Regards, Jan _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
