Hello all, My name is Matt Jadud[1], a member of the CS faculty at Allegheny College. Since attending a Red Hat workshop on integrating FLOSS and the classroom[2], I've been looking for more ways to do this in my teaching. This semester I am leading a course titled "Human Centered Design," which focuses on interface usability issues. To kick things off, I had discussed with Máirín the idea that the students might do some lightweight testing of the upcoming F14 design. Mind you, they've *just started*, and so the idea with this is to quickly get a sense for what is involved in going through a testing process from start to finish. Also, we want our presence here to be "lightweight," as we know you're busy in the lead-up to R14. Our goal is to help provide some feedback and testing on the design as it is progressing. To that end, the students are working up a list of questions, and our hope is that we can chat with Mo and (ideally) other members of the team sometime in the next few days. The goal is to pick three or four aspects of the design that we can dig into, do some usability testing on, and provide feedback (quickly) to the community. Our "ask" here is that you help us make sure that we're looking at parts of the redesign that will be useful to you -- beyond that, we'll do the work, and while we hope we do work that is useful and valuable, we have no expectations that our feedback will necessarily change anything. We'd love to have any and all who can/are interested to participate in that conversation. The wiki page of questions that the student teams are filling out is here (it should be "done" by the evening of the 7th): http://wiki.rockalypse.org/HCD/Website_Testing_Resources and the WhenIsGood scheduler is here: http://whenisgood.net/4jr8mg I've joined this mailing list, and will gladly answer questions -- this was a brief intro, and probably leaves more unsaid than said. Many thanks, Matt [1] http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/User:Jadudm [2] http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_2009 -- websites mailing list websites@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites
