FLOSS Usability Sprint IV: March 9-11, 2007
Aspiration and Blue Oxen Associates hosted the fourth FLOSS Usability Sprint on March 9-11, 2007 at Google in Mountain View, California. At the sprint, open source developers, usability practitioners, project managers, and users gathered to discuss methodologies for improving the usability of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) and to apply those processes towards specific projects. The goal was two-fold: To improve the usability of the participating projects, and to catalyze greater shared understanding and ongoing collaboration between the usability and open source communities. (594)
This was our fourth sprint, after throwing three successful sprints in February and August 2005, and October 2006. As always, our focus was on working with a fantastic set of free (libre) / open source (FLOSS) software projects, focusing especially on users from nonprofit organizations. (595)
If you are a usability practitioner, FLOSS developer, or user and are interested in participating, please fill out our application.
As always, the event was self-documenting on our event Wiki under Creative Commons license to encourage the broadest use, adoption and ongoing enhancement of those resources. (596)