Spread OpenUsability
Apart from supporting a large number F/OSS projects usability-wise, members of the OpenUsability community participate in conferences, fairs and workshops to promote the application of usability expertise in open source projects, and to spread usability knowledge in the F/OSS community.
Developer Summits. OpenUsability team members regularly attend developer summits like the KDE developer summit "aKademy", the Ubuntu Developer Sprints, the Libre Graphics Meeting or the Open Printing Summits, an initiative of the Linux Foundation. The usability specialists participate in BoF sessions, technical discussions and consult on design issues.
Upcoming Dates:
- aKademy: August 9 - 16 2008, Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium.
Previous Dates:
- aKademy: June 30 - July 7, 2007, Glasgow, Scotland
LinuxTag. OpenUsability has been present at the German LinuxTag since its foundation in 2004. In talks, workshops and by means of a booth at the affiliated fair OpenUsability team members inform about usability in F/OSS projects and demonstrate usability methods.
Upcoming Dates:
- LinuxTag: May 28 - 31, 2008.
Usability conferences. To inform their colleagues about the characteristics of usability methods in F/OSS projects, OpenUsability members publish articles and blogs about their experiences and describe best practices. At usability conferences like the German Mensch and Computer or at events in the scope of the World Usability Day, they demonstrate their experiences along talks and show cases.
Previous Dates:
- Mensch und Computer: September 2 - 5, 2007, Weimar, Germany.
- World Usability Day: November 8th 2007
F/OSS conferences. In conferences about Open Source Software like OSCON or tossad, OpenUsability members stress the importance of usability for the acceptance of free software by the customer.
Upcoming Dates:
- No dates planned.