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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Matt,

Looking forward to working with your students!

One thing that you might mention to your students that could help them:
We've got a lot of bug reports in our bug tracking system that are
blocked on needing UI/usability decisions (and good rationale).

So I would encourage your students to browse the bug tracker to look for
project ideas.

Thanks,
Bryce

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 02:22:39PM +0200, Lionel Dricot wrote:
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: free interaction design submission : Getting Things GNOME!
> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:10:06 -0400
> From: Matthew Jadud <mjadud@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Lionel Dricot <ploum@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Hi Lionel,
> 
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:57, Lionel Dricot <ploum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Gtg is now quite mature, popular (in the 10 recommandeds applications
> for
> > Ubuntu), packaged for most Linux distribution and with a very active
> > community.
> 
> That sounds excellent. I'm personally familiar with GTD, and GTG looks
> like an excellent candidate.
> 
> We're going to be starting the semester next week, and my rough plan
> is as follows:
> 
> 1. The students will do a rapid pass through the design and testing
> process on a website project.
> 
> 2. While rapidly touring the breadth of UI design and testing, we'll
> learn about interacting with communities via IRC, blogs, mailing
> lists, bug trackers, wikis, and the like.
> 
> 3. My expectation is that they will look at the available projects and
> begin approaching the communities/projects they're most interested in
> working with by mid-to-late September, and we will then use the
> remainder of the semester to focus in on software UIs.
> 
> While I have taught this kind of course before, it is the first time
> I've experimented with putting it in the context of a living, open
> source project. That said, I want to be clear: I'm well aware of how
> open source software development works, and the students will be, too.
> We do not believe our contributions will *necessarily* result in
> changes in your project. We only ask for the opportunity to work in a
> community context where the students' explorations will not come as a
> surprise, and their work will be given a bit of consideration along
> the way. And who knows: they might decide to keep working on the
> project past the end of the term, which I would consider a win for all
> involved!
> 
> My most sincere thanks. I'll drop a note in about a week's time
> pointing you at the (hopefully up-to-date) course website, and let you
> know how we're getting on.
> 
> Cheers,
> Matt
> 
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