Re: [Usability] (no subject)

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

P G wrote:
> 
> What's the power structure at the Usability project?  All I found on the web was "Seth Nickell (Project Lead)".  How are decisions made?  What can I do apart from posting my suggestions to this mailing list?

There's no power structure as such, it works like any of the other
sub-projects within GNOME (documentation project, accessibility project
etc.)-- if you have the time, enthusiasm and expertise to help out, or
you're willing to ask a few dumb questions to gain that expertise,
people will generally start listening.  It only takes a few good posts
to build up the necessary credibility :)

As for suggestions and decisions, the usability list is as good a place
as any to make those for now.  You can also file bug reports in bugzilla
against components you think have a particular usability problem-- use
the "Usability" keyword, and/or the "hig" keyword if it's something you
think should be in the GNOME UI guidelines document.

The usability project used to hold bi-weekly meetings on IRC as well,
but they seem to have died a death while people are concentrating on
getting 2.0 out the door.  Hopefully they will be resurrected sometime
soon.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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