FOSSCamp
I will be attending FOSSCamp in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA October 27th and 28th. A weekend is a long enough time to attack some known interface issues as long as discuss the future of usability in OSS and how to progress OSS design in the future. Here are a few things I’d like to cover while I’m there:
- The general state of usability and design in OSS and where to go from there
- How to plan, fund, and conduct user-centered and user-based studies
- Discussion of specific design problems such as partitioning, printing, security, etc.
- The upcoming KDE4 release and how it effects KDE-focused projects
Since this will be the weekend before Halloween and Samhain, there should be some festivities in and around the area. Halloween is especially popular in Boston (perhaps due to the Salem witch trials in the 17th and 18th centuries). Don’t forget your Halloween costumes!
seele :: Oct.15.2007 :: Design, General, Open Source :: 4 Comments »
Hey, hope to see you there :) I’m going to see if I can talk about Upstream/Downstream communication, and the opportunity that KDE 4 presents for distro-collaboration on imrpovements and so forth.
Cheers
You might want to clarify it is Cambridge in the US rather than the UK :)
I was wondering why I hadn’t heard about it.
MA: Good point (updated)
Unfortunately for me, it is in the USA. I was invited to go there, but declined when I found out I’d have to fly across the ocean for one weekend.