AOO UX - Getting involved
Hi! My name is Manuel del Valle. I'm from Argentina, and I'm a OO user/enthusiast. Most certainly, I'm not a C++ guru (not really sure I know what that means, now that I think about it), not even a C++ newbie, nor a rock Star. (:wink:) Somehow I managed to participate in Google Moderator brainstorming session (don't actually remember how I got there, though) about AOO 4.0 improvements and new features. Kevin Grignon answered some of the "Graphical interface" proposals encouraging us to join the UX team, and that's exactly what I'm trying to do: I read AOO UX wiki, and, in order to get involved, I subscribed to this mailing list and signed up in AOO's Confluence Wiki. I would like to get in touch with some of the UX people, in order to try to learn and participate, but don't really know how to. Is this mailing list the right place? Obviously, I'm not going to be able to code anything, so the developers list seems pretty far away from my possibilities, but I was hoping that I cuold be "useful" in some other way. Perhaps, sharing the point of view of a regular, non-techie user as regards AOO usability. Sorry if my English is not polite enough, or quite "rough", I'm not a native speaker. That's all by now, I wait for some guidance on how to get involved. Thanks, Manuel
Re: AOO UX - Getting involved
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Manuel del Valle wrote: > My name is Manuel del Valle. I'm from Argentina, and I'm a OO user/enthusiast. Welcome Manuel. We´re two, or should I say, "somos dos". ;) I hope people in this list can guide you to the right place to get involved in the UX design effort.. And let me know if you or anyone else in the UX team needs a guinea pig to try out new UX design ideas... I´ve been using all sorts of GUIs since the mid-80s (GEOS on the C64 :), so by now I have developed quite a good idea of what ´works´ and ´doesn´t work´ for me, I usually find out quite quickly. Yet I´m not scared of trying something new (ie I hated Gnome 3.x at first, but once I understood the general idea of it, I quickly found the strenghts and little -fixable- shortcomings of its design). FC Buenos Aires, Argentina -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell
Re: AOO UX - Getting involved
Althought it might not be current, you should checkout the UX wiki pages to get a sense of what was being discussed and the areas these project was taking. http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Ux On 10/13/12, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Manuel del Valle wrote: > >> My name is Manuel del Valle. I'm from Argentina, and I'm a OO >> user/enthusiast. > > Welcome Manuel. We´re two, or should I say, "somos dos". ;) > > I hope people in this list can guide you to the right place to get > involved in the UX design effort.. > > And let me know if you or anyone else in the UX team needs a guinea > pig to try out new UX design ideas... I´ve been using all sorts of > GUIs since the mid-80s (GEOS on the C64 :), so by now I have developed > quite a good idea of what ´works´ and ´doesn´t work´ for me, I usually > find out quite quickly. Yet I´m not scared of trying something new (ie > I hated Gnome 3.x at first, but once I understood the general idea of > it, I quickly found the strenghts and little -fixable- shortcomings of > its design). > > FC > Buenos Aires, Argentina > -- > During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary > act > - George Orwell > -- Alexandro Colorado PPMC Apache OpenOffice http://es.openoffice.org
Re: AOO UX - Getting involved
Manuel, Great news. Thanks for reaching in. We'd love your support. I'll send off a note explaining how to participate in UX shortly. Regards, Kevin On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > Althought it might not be current, you should checkout the UX wiki > pages to get a sense of what was being discussed and the areas these > project was taking. > > http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Ux > > > > On 10/13/12, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Manuel del Valle > wrote: > > > >> My name is Manuel del Valle. I'm from Argentina, and I'm a OO > >> user/enthusiast. > > > > Welcome Manuel. We´re two, or should I say, "somos dos". ;) > > > > I hope people in this list can guide you to the right place to get > > involved in the UX design effort.. > > > > And let me know if you or anyone else in the UX team needs a guinea > > pig to try out new UX design ideas... I´ve been using all sorts of > > GUIs since the mid-80s (GEOS on the C64 :), so by now I have developed > > quite a good idea of what ´works´ and ´doesn´t work´ for me, I usually > > find out quite quickly. Yet I´m not scared of trying something new (ie > > I hated Gnome 3.x at first, but once I understood the general idea of > > it, I quickly found the strenghts and little -fixable- shortcomings of > > its design). > > > > FC > > Buenos Aires, Argentina > > -- > > During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a > revolutionary > > act > > - George Orwell > > > > > -- > Alexandro Colorado > PPMC Apache OpenOffice > http://es.openoffice.org >
Re: AOO UX - Getting involved
KG02 - See comments inline. On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > Althought it might not be current, you should checkout the UX wiki > pages to get a sense of what was being discussed and the areas these > project was taking. > > http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Ux > KG02 - Yes, the UX wiki is current and contains a task list where we need help. > > > On 10/13/12, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Manuel del Valle > wrote: > > > >> My name is Manuel del Valle. I'm from Argentina, and I'm a OO > >> user/enthusiast. > > > > Welcome Manuel. We´re two, or should I say, "somos dos". ;) > > > > I hope people in this list can guide you to the right place to get > > involved in the UX design effort.. > > > > And let me know if you or anyone else in the UX team needs a guinea > > pig to try out new UX design ideas... I´ve been using all sorts of > > GUIs since the mid-80s (GEOS on the C64 :), so by now I have developed > > quite a good idea of what ´works´ and ´doesn´t work´ for me, I usually > > find out quite quickly. Yet I´m not scared of trying something new (ie > > I hated Gnome 3.x at first, but once I understood the general idea of > > it, I quickly found the strenghts and little -fixable- shortcomings of > > its design). > > > > FC > > Buenos Aires, Argentina > > -- > > During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a > revolutionary > > act > > - George Orwell > > > > > -- > Alexandro Colorado > PPMC Apache OpenOffice > http://es.openoffice.org >