We could ask Novell if we could post results to betterdesktop.org ... On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Andreas Nilsson <[email protected]>wrote:
> Allan Day wrote: > >> <snip> >> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 15:53 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: >> >> >>> As many of you know, I'm interested in putting together a usability >>> study for GNOME on netbooks. >>> >>> I've gotten a few quotes from usability companies/contractors and I've >>> gotten some interest from advisory board member companies. >>> >>> However, I could use some help shaping up the study. I'm not a >>> usability expert, nor really a GNOME on netbook expert (just a user), >>> so I could use some help. >>> >>> Things left to do: >>> >>> >> </snip> >> >> <snip> >> >> >>> - Figure out ways to keep costs low by involving volunteers, giving >>> things other than money to those that help (publicity, making all the >>> data public and accredited to the organization, ...) >>> >>> >> </snip> >> >> This is a good (and interesting) question to ask. In an ideal world, >> third-party usability testing would form one part of a more general >> usability effort which would make use of the resources that we already >> have available. I say ideal, because it's important to be realistic >> about what we can do. >> >> Off the top of my head, I can think of a number sources of data which >> could be combined in this more general effort: >> >> >> * Volunteer run usability testing, using something like Pongo [1]. >> >> > I had some loose idea about putting together a website where people could > submit their videos that they did on their mother, friend, workmate, janitor > or whatever (with permission from those of course). A bit like > betterdesktop.org [1] > Would need some instructions and stuff to get people to get started, but it > could be worth a shot. > I'll see if I can put something basic together during the weekend. > > 1. http://www.betterdesktop.org/wiki/index.php?title=Data > > - Andreas >
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