[Tfug] [fwd] Season of Usability - Call for Mentors

[Claude Rubinson]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 11:11:54PM +0000, Jude Nelson wrote:
> January to March 2006?  Has it already passed?

Must be a typo.  According to the
http://www.openusability.org/studentprojects/ the projects will be
announced on the 14th of this month and the work period is Jan - Apr
2007.


> 
> On 11/3/06, Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu> wrote:
> >
> > ----- Forwarded message from Ellen Reitmayr <ellen at openusability.org>
> > -----
> >
> > Date: Fri,  3 Nov 2006 10:45:12 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Ellen Reitmayr <ellen at openusability.org>
> > Subject: [sprint] Season of Usability - Call for Mentors
> > To: sprint at flossusability.org
> > Reply-To: sprint at flossusability.org
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > in the scope of OpenUsability we will soon offer a number of sponsored
> > student projects that aim at getting students of usability, user
> > interface design or information architecture into Open Source projects.
> > It's modeled after the Google Summer of Code, and we even gave it a
> > similar name: "Season of Usability" ;-)
> >
> > http://www.openusability.org/studentprojects/
> >
> > We are still looking for usability mentors who are willing to coach a
> > student. The time frame of the project will be January to March 2006,
> > (while announcements should be sent out as soon as possible).
> >
> > You are free to choose any OSS project and define a usability task in
> > agreement with the developers. Maybe you started to work on a project
> > during one of sprints and would like to continue the work? Mentoring a
> > student would be a good way to get work done while keeping the load low
> > for yourself. Otherwise we can offer you a number of interesting OSS
> > projects registered on OpenUsability.
> >
> > To give you an idea of what such a student project might be like, have a
> > look at our pilot project:
> >
> > http://www.openusability.org/studentprojects/archive/2006-08_studentprojects-gimp.html
> >
> > We would be happy to welcome usability mentors from the FLOSS usability
> > community and make this a joint effort of the two groups!
> >
> > For further information on alternative OSS projects, the procedure and
> > dates, please contact me or reply to this list.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Ellen
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Ellen Reitmayr
> > Usability Engineer
> >
> > www.openusability.org
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
> >
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