As a reminder for all who are interested in Usability and Open Source - and are at the LinuxTag tomorrow. We will have a very informal meeting from 9 to 12 am in Hall 7, 1a, Workshop Room “New York 2″.
You are very welcome to just drop in if you like!
We are very happy to work together with KDAB, Intevation and G10Code on a project to make Kontact available on mobile phones. This is great as there is no really good mobile mail client around and as it is important for free software to offer such a crucial part of the mobile software infrastructure…
As always it is our task to make sure that the product in the end will be stunning and usable and as always we need your help to get there!
Now we are looking for people that are intersted in building up a testing and feedback community for this project. This community will be integrated into the further development and will help us by this to make the mobile version of Kontact rock!
It would be helpful if you own a N900, because there will be packages for this device available really soon - but there is no need to have one. We also look for people that will give us feedback on their personal needs and wants concerning the mobile use of a PIM suit.
What can you do next?
I will be around at Linuxtag as well - and will be happy to meet you!
LinuxTag 2010, anybody?
We invite you to take part in an informal meeting to share thoughts, experiences and other information covering the topics Usability and User Experience in the Free Software world. The meeting is organized by Björn from OpenUsability.org and Christoph from the OpenOffice.org User Experience Team.
You should join if you are interested in:
We are looking forward to see you at LinuxTag in Berlin, Germany!
Go ahead and find more information on the Informal Meeting Wiki page.
Cheers,
Björn
Anne and I will be at the LinuxTag in Berlin. Hope it will be as much fun as in the last years!
The plans are at the moment that at least one of us will be there on Wednesday and Thursday afternoon, as well as Friday the whole day. We will be mainly at the Tine 2.0 booth (Halle 7.2a Stand 102a). You will have the possibility to participate in a small Icon-Usabilitytest to identify the best icons for the new Tine calender-app there!
We are looking forward to discuss any issue with you concerning the Usability of Tine 2.0 or any other Open Source Software.
On LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin the OpenSource Usability Labs were invited by the Tine 2.0 project. So I was at their booth a fair bit of the time, discussing the concepts, screens and ideas we have. The feedback was great - a lot of people encouraged us in our work. The main feedback was: there is no easy-to-use OpenSource groupware-solution for small and medium-sized enterprises around but there is definitely a need for one! So hey-ho - let’s go, Tine!
We demonstrated what we call a technology preview. This preview reveals some of the basic functionality and some of our interaction-concepts. The visitors were impressed by the ease of interaction made possible by newest Web 2.0 technology. But make up your own mind and try out what we have achieved so far.
Additionally we made a web-based icon-understandability test on the booth. So visitors could help us to understand what icons are already well understood - and which icons still need to be improved. This way visitors had the possibility to directly influence the usability of Tine 2.0. We will provide this facility for all of you, who could not attend LinuxTag on the Tine-Website soon. Tools like this are extremely important for achieving the certification as being developed according to ISO 13407.
Next to Tine I promoted the idea of the OpenSource Usability Labs. There were quite a few commercial OpenSource Projects around on LinuxTag. I talked to a lot of people about our ideas of professional OpenSource Usability, our philosophy and our business models - and most of them found the ideas very interesting.
I really enjoyed LinuxTag and already look forward to next year’s edition! Thanks to all the guys making this possible. We should not forget that this event is mainly the result of , oluntary work.
Only one week left to LinuxTag in Berlin (28th to 31st of May)! It is always a great event and I am looking forward to meet all the great people that are engaged in the OpenSource community! And of course I am personally happy that this event has settled in Berlin - and I do not need to travel for it anymore 
Unfortunately the OpenSource Usability Labs will - this year - not have there own booth on LinuxTag. But you will find me most of the time at the Tine 2.0 booth. It is located in hall 7.2a booth no. 115.
I am very happy to get feedback on the ideas we can present up to now with Tine 2.0. Feel free to discuss the concepts in User-Interface- and User-Interaction-Design with me. As well I am looking forward to discuss any issues related to usability in OpenSource in general - be it in the scope of the OpenUsability-Initiative or a matter of the OpenSource Usability Labs.
See you on LinuxTag!
