[gnome.org #14327] AutoReply: Application received from James Flemon Hall (Jim Hall) (jhall AT freedos.org)

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Contact Information
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Full Name: James Flemon Hall (Jim Hall)
Email:     jhall AT freedos.org

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Contributions Summary:
Most recently, worked with Allan Day, Jakub Steiner, and William Jon McCann on a usability test of GNOME 3.12 
and 3.10. This work was part of a Master's capstone project ("Usability Themes in Open Source Software" - PDF 
and ebook available at http://personal.morris.umn.edu/~jhall/opensource-usability/). This research is also 
being submitted as an article for the Journal of Usability Studies. Versions of this article will also appear 
in Linux Journal and Linux Voice magazines.

I performed a similar usability test on GNOME 3.4. This research was published in Linux Journal (print: Dec 
2013, and web: Feb 2014) 
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/its-about-user-applying-usability-open-source-software

I maintain an active blog about usability in free software and open source software at 
http://opensource-usability.blogspot.com/

I also write occasional guest articles for other blogs, including this entry at the SourceForge.net Blog 
about usability in open source software and free software: 
http://sourceforge.net/blog/usability-in-open-source-software-guest-blog-post/

Outside of GNOME, I have contributed to many free software projects. For example, I am the founder of the 
FreeDOS Project <http://www.freedos.org/>, I wrote the DOS Cats/Kitten internationalization library (similar 
to catgets), and I wrote the original GNU Robots <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnurobots/>

References:
Allan Day <allanpday gmail com> (provided recommendation for GNOME Foundation)
Jakub Steiner <jimmac gmail com>

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