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

[Jude Nelson]

January to March 2006?  Has it already passed?

On 11/3/06, Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu> wrote:
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> ----- Forwarded message from Ellen Reitmayr <ellen at openusability.org>
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> 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
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> Hi,
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> 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" ;-)
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> http://www.openusability.org/studentprojects/
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> To give you an idea of what such a student project might be like, have a
> look at our pilot project:
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> http://www.openusability.org/studentprojects/archive/2006-08_studentprojects-gimp.html
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> We would be happy to welcome usability mentors from the FLOSS usability
> community and make this a joint effort of the two groups!
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> For further information on alternative OSS projects, the procedure and
> dates, please contact me or reply to this list.
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> Thank you,
> Ellen
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> Ellen Reitmayr
> Usability Engineer
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> www.openusability.org
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