Flossusability:Community Portal
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The FLOSS Usability Project
This project is a community-driven endeavour that seeks to understand how usability fits into FLOSS development.
What You Can Do
If you attended the SIG and or are otherwise interested in collaboratively coming up with ideas that may lead to the betterment of FLOSS, then you are invited to sign up for an account (no anonymous posting please) and help build this wiki. You can also post Announcements related to FLOSS Usability here.
Where to Find Things
The Main Page (look left, under the navigation area) is where the main ideas for this wiki are linked. Feel free to link other ideas from the Main Page. See the MediaWiki help page for editing and formatting help.
Community
The FLOSS usability community is growing with several projects that look at usability in the open source world.
Port 25
Port 25 is the communication blog for what is happening with open source in Microsoft. The CHI SIG was co-hosted by one of the members of Port 25, Bryan Kirschner.
IST at Penn State
This wiki is affiliated the College of Information Sciences Technology at Penn State as part of Paula Bach's dissertation.
Fluid Project
The Fluid Project is a multi-partner research project that investigates usability (among other things) in community projects, including open source.
OpenUsability
OpenUsability is a portal that pairs open source projects with usability people.
FLOSS Usability Sprint
To date, the FLOSS Usability folks have organized four sessions in the Silicon Valley area for people interested in usability and open source to gather and work toward continuing to bring usability to open source communities.
