Re: [Usability] Usability internship with GNOME

[Jan Dittrich <Jan Dittrich uni-weimar de>]

Hi to you all!

Within the last weeks, me and Jan-Christoph Borchardt student joined the 
list because we are both interested in usability and want to push open 
source further.
Maybe there is a strong interest by other young and motivated students 
at universities who would like improve the gnome user experience.
What do you think about setting up a possibility for universities and 
students to get in contact with gnome? If you like the idea - what do 
you think are decent ways to do that?

 Jan Dittrich

On 27.02.2010 23:59, Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote:
> Hey GNOME / Usability folks :-)
>
> I am currently studying information design at Stuttgart Media
> University in Germany. In our 5th semester (October 2010 – February
> 2011), we are to go into practice. Being Ubuntu user, passionate about
> usability testing, interaction- / interface- / information design and
> interested in open source collaboration, I would like to work related
> to GNOME.
>
> Our studies are mainly about researching, designing and testing with
> the user; contextual inquiry, eye-tracking and so forth. I am
> currently testing Ubuntu + GNOME with friends and family. ;-) I mainly
> experiment with panel layout, verbalisation of application names and
> visibility of system features / options.
>
> I try to get more into programming but my current love is usability
> testing and refining. I have personal experience with coding for the
> web (HTML, CSS, JS, PHP) but very little when it comes to higher
> languages. (I think really not enough to mention. I am planning on
> learning Ruby/Rails though.)
>
> You can find me and my work at http://inquata.com – I would love to
> get an internship related to GNOME. The time frame is a little
> restricting but working in a foreign (especially English-speaking)
> country will be no problem.
>
> As I do not have a good grasp of the organisational structures and the
> crucial points in GNOME yet, I would greatly appreciate a mentor from
> the community helping me get into it. :-)
>
> I am also wondering about Season of Usability
> <http://season.openusability.org>. GNOME participated in 2009; I am
> not sure what happened to the project (and openusability in general)
> as it seems to be inactive since almost a year.
>
>
> Thanks to Jono, Stormy and Brian for the help so far!
>
> Regards, Jan
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