Re: [Usability] Openusability and GNOME usability

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 27 Aug 2005, at 22:26, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> What is the status of cooperation between you guys and the guys at
> openusability.org?
>
> Have you guys spoken with each other? Have you guys contacted them
> and/or have you guys been contacted by them? Are you guys planning  
> to do
> this in a (near) future?

I've been a member of OpenUsability.org for over a year, but so  
little seemed to be happening that I lost interest.  Perhaps this is  
just a perception issue... because they have no RSS feeds or mailing  
lists (that I can find, anyway), you have to do a fair amount of  
digging to see what's actually happening, and I don't really have a  
lot of time for digging around websites on the off-chance...  
especially in web forums, which I loathe :)

Also, the whole thing seems to be fairly strictly project-based,  
which doesn't really tackle the real problems of open source  
usability IMHO... the one thing open source usability really lacks is  
a successful, repeatable usability process.  But there doesn't seem  
to be anything on the website that even encourages cross-project  
discussion of successes and failures.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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