Re: GNOME and non-linux platforms (release team please stand up)

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 24 Jul 2009, at 19:13, Karl Lattimer wrote:

> > I think we could really benefit from a ux.gnome.org site for
> demonstrating new ideas and creating concrete mockups and cataloging
> testing data from various organisations who are performing usability
> testing or have in the past.

Probably a bit OT here -- at the risk of causing myself some list  
moderation work, setting followups to usability gnome org :)

FWIW, we do already have <http://usability.gnome.org>, which used to  
redirect to d.g.o/projects/usability, but now redirects to l.g.o/ 
UsabilityProject.

Do we need a separate site outside of l.g.o for what you propose?  Do  
we need to add ux.gnome.org as an alias for usability.gnome.org?  I  
don't know... maybe.  The text-heavy UsabilityProject area could  
certainly do with a more attractive homepage, at least -- I basically  
just shovelled everything over verbatim from the old d.g.o usability  
site as quickly as possible when d.g.o was being deprecated, and  
haven't really had time to do a great deal of remodelling since.

> We could even possibly get people grazing through and helping out,
> especially people like the gnome-look community which is thriving and
> still producing content on their brainstorm pages...
> http://gnome-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=185

Our current equivalent, I guess, is <http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/Whiteboard 
>.  It's probably true that we haven't evangelised that enough, and  
of course some of the larger GNOME projects have their own design  
areas on l.g.o so don't use the usability Whiteboard area anyway.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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