Are there people in the various software communities that are doing this? Do you know where I can go for more information so that I can stand on the shoulders of giants rather than walk in their shadows? Please let me know if you know about anything related to this. I am particular interested in community, non-profit usability studies.
There have been various usability studies conducted on KDE, and there are ongoing ones. For everything related to KDE usability, you should subscribe to kde-usability and kde-usability-devel (see http://www.kde.org/mailinglists/). See also the KDE Usability Project at http://usability.kde.org/.
-- Simon Perreault <nomis80@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- http://nomis80.org