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The GUADEC diaries — chapter 3
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I think my talk titled something like “Transifex: Upstream-friendly, community-centric translations. Making translations easier for everyone” went well, considering the load of stuff I had in my head and the little time to explain them. Here’s a link to the slides for anyone who’d like to take a look.
Thomas Vander Stichele had an awesome presentation about good project management, touching more or less all levels of it. At some point where I managed to get my attention off the talk, I turned to see the audience and everybody was concentrated on Thomas, nobody playing with their laptop. It was so damn good that people asked him not only to put it on the web asap, but to put the content of it on a wiki for people to use as a reference. Really good stuff.
Máirín gave a nice talk about designing interfaces, drawing from her experience from
virt-manager. I’m sure it was very educating to a lot of the engineers in the room, especially on how important it is (in terms of both time and quality) to give the designer the opportunity to study well before asking him to design the UI.I wanted to discuss with her a bunch of stuff about Fedora and GNOME, the experience of the users of our websites, ideas to improve them and integrate their respective webpages better. Unfortunately, I had to leave early and didn’t manage to do so. Maybe at FUDCon in February.
Talking about user experience, I talked a bit with Calum Benson about how to improve the process of developers getting help and users reporting problems to the GNOME Usability team. The tricky part when talking about design is that context matters. In the case of requesting help about design, usually people don’t know what context is required. So we end up asking the same questions for each request: “What is the target user group of your app, what are their goals and expectations when they are using it?”, “How are they using existing apps and how would they want to use your app?”, “Do you have a diagram showing the flow between screens, or/and one showing how the options on each page work together?”. Creating a template wiki page with these questions on live.gnome.org, together with an example of it filled up would help people trying to request help from the Usability team. It could even help them find the answer themselves.
Photos
Some random pics I shot during my stay. Next GUADEC at Istanbul, I’ll probably save more free time, the weather will most likely be better, and the city will definitely have more interesting stuff to put in the frame.
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midnight, Σάββατο 21 Ιουλίου 2007
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