Re: Fedora disconnection?

2008-07-30 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Máirín Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if it would be cool to have a "usability test a friend" day, where > some project or focus within Fedora gets together to write up a pre-defined > set of tasks to test, and then we publicize the usability test a fri

Re: Fedora disconnection?

2008-07-30 Thread Máirín Duffy
Paul W. Frields wrote: Well hush my mouth, this sounds great. But the key factor is the "target" part -- and mostly the studies that I've seen users advocate is a limitless problem set, without boundaries. So I mistakenly brought that knee-jerk bias to this conversation, which is my own fault.

Re: Fedora disconnection?

2008-07-30 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 21:39 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > Hi folks, > > Paul W. Frields wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 21:35 -0500, Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote: > >> Like Paul suggests, maybe it would be a good time to conduct a usability > >> study among Fedora users? I understand that Fedora adv

Re: Fedora disconnection?

2008-07-30 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu
Máirín Duffy escribió: If it's any help at all, it is really really easy to conduct your own usability tests. You need to have a target for the test first. We did this recently at FUDcon for the Fedora website. I'll walk you through exactly how we did this quickly so you can see how to do it yo

Re: Fedora disconnection?

2008-07-29 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi folks, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 21:35 -0500, Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote: Like Paul suggests, maybe it would be a good time to conduct a usability study among Fedora users? I understand that Fedora advances through its contributors, but it's supported by its users. Just

Re: Fedora disconnection?

2008-07-29 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 21:35 -0500, Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote: > Like Paul suggests, maybe it would be a good time to conduct a usability > study among Fedora users? I understand that Fedora advances through its > contributors, but it's supported by its users. Just to be very clear, I'm not sugge

Re: Fedora disconnection?

2008-07-28 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu
Jeff Spaleta escribió: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Gian Paolo Mureddu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There has been a heated discussion over several threads in www.fedoraforum.org about how disconnected some users feel from the development team, as well as a general "lack of direction" in Fe

Re: Fedora disconnection?

2008-07-27 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 01:26:23PM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Gian Paolo Mureddu > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There has been a heated discussion over several threads in > > www.fedoraforum.org about how disconnected some users feel from the > > development tea

Re: Fedora disconnection?

2008-07-27 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Gian Paolo Mureddu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There has been a heated discussion over several threads in > www.fedoraforum.org about how disconnected some users feel from the > development team, as well as a general "lack of direction" in Fedora's > leadership. Th

Re: Fedora disconnection?

2008-07-26 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu
Rahul Sundaram escribió: Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote: There has been a heated discussion over several threads in www.fedoraforum.org about how disconnected some users feel from the development team, as well as a general "lack of direction" in Fedora's leadership. The latest of these discussions s

Re: Fedora disconnection?

2008-07-26 Thread Ricky Zhou
On 2008-07-27 04:17:29 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > I have already discussed this issue in the private staff forum and a few > of the administrators are now showing up in #fedora-devel IRC channel to > help bridge this gap. Thanks for that! It's been great talking to some of them on IRC. I thi

Re: Fedora disconnection?

2008-07-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote: There has been a heated discussion over several threads in www.fedoraforum.org about how disconnected some users feel from the development team, as well as a general "lack of direction" in Fedora's leadership. The latest of these discussions started about an article (

Fedora disconnection?

2008-07-26 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu
There has been a heated discussion over several threads in www.fedoraforum.org about how disconnected some users feel from the development team, as well as a general "lack of direction" in Fedora's leadership. The latest of these discussions started about an article (posted a few months back he