Re: [Usability] Google Code-In 2011: Tasks wanted!

[Andika Triwidada <andika gmail com>]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
> Google Code-In starts again.
> GNOME took part in it last year already.


> * User Interface: Tasks related to user experience research or user interface design and interaction
>
> For more info check out
> http://www.google-melange.com/gci/document/show/gci_program/google/gci2011/about
>
>
> === How to participate ===
>
> GNOME needs 5 tasks in each of the 8 categories (=40 tasks in total)
> until October 31st in order to participate in GCI.
> That's in a few days already, so hurry up if you have an idea!
> That would be the first batch of tasks.
> A second batch would be published on December 16th.
>
> Tasks need a clear description, one or more defined mentors, an expected
> timeframe to solve them, and difficulty (easy, medium, hard).
>
> More info for mentors is available here:
> http://code.google.com/p/google-code-in/wiki/GCIAdminMentorInformation
>
> No ideas? Check out for example KDE's list:
> http://community.kde.org/GoogleCodeIn/2011/Ideas
>
> You could even add generic tasks: Add three GCI tasks "Fix a bug of your
> choice for the product $foo in GNOME Bugzilla" (one easy, one medium and
> one hard), let the student pick a bug, and then tell her/him whether to
> claim the easy, medium or hard task for it.
>


Just a very rough idea: will it be a suitable task to "check
dialog/windows/theme/etc
dimension against netbook"? one task per application. Participant only need to
list which app and which dialog/window/etc is unusable/hard to use on netbook
having resolution 800x480 or so. Test can be done under VM with guest window
resized to that resolution number.

Regards,
--
andika