I just got a free license as a do-gooder! :)

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Allan Caeg <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sounds interesting. Personally, I need such an app. Calum, thanks for the
> links! :)
> Regards,
> Allan
> https://launchpad.net/~wersdaluv
> http://twitter.com/AllanCaeg
>
>
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>> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:10:33 -0600
>> From: "Guy Lunardi" <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>,"Guy Lunardi" <[email protected]>
>> Subject: [Usability] [Fwd: Do-Gooders and Other Free License
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>> Bonjour,
>>
>>  What do you think of this idea? I really like their software and I
>> think that even if only a few projects take advantage of making mockups
>> with it, it's a great story for them to enable the GNOME project.
>>
>>  Please let Stormy or I know what you think :-).
>>
>> Also, I understand of course that YOU do not need such a tool. Inkscape
>> and the likes can do the same. The idea is for everyone else (people like
>> myself) to generate mockups to share their ideas.
>>
>>
>> Best,
>> -Guy
>>
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>> From: "Guy Lunardi" <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
>> To:  <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Sun Oct 11 08:23:37 2009
>> Subject: Do-Gooders and Other Free License Recipients...
>> All,
>>
>> While I realize that their software doesn't use any GNOME technologies,
>> it is still a very useful tool that I personally use often for projects.
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone thought that contacting Balsamiq and asking
>> them to consider donating licenses to GNOME Foundation members would be
>> useful?
>> http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups
>>
>> Having used their software for quite some time, I know that the projects
>> we used it for had a much great user experience focus during the early
>> development cycles because of it.
>>
>> It might be a great opportunity for GNOME to increase its emphasis on
>> user experience. We could for example use this software as part of some
>> of our outreach programs (collect feedback earlier on designs).
>>
>> Please let me know what you think.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> -Guy
>>
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:04:36 +0100
>> From: Calum Benson <[email protected]>
>> To: Guy Lunardi <[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Usability] [Fwd: Do-Gooders and Other Free License
>>        Recipients...]
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>> On 15 Oct 2009, at 17:10, Guy Lunardi wrote:
>>
>> > Also, I understand of course that YOU do not need such a tool.
>> > Inkscape and the likes can do the same. The idea is for everyone
>> > else (people like myself) to generate mockups to share their ideas.
>>
>> There's actually a whole bunch of tools out there for doing this sort
>> of thing now... ForeUI (Java) and FlairBuilder (AIR) are another
>> couple of good cross-platform ones:
>>
>> <http://www.foreui.com/>
>> <http://www.flairbuilder.com/>
>>
>> CogTool from Carnegie Mellon is a particularly interesting one -- it's
>> free and open source, and it automatically evaluates your prototypes
>> using a predictive human performance model.  But that, as you might
>> expect, does make it a bit harder to learn and use:
>>
>> <http://cogtool.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/>
>>
>> (Despite apparently just being a Java + clisp app, they say it doesn't
>> run on Linux and there are no plans to make it do so -- maybe that
>> would be an interesting project for somebody here?)
>>
>> Cheeri,
>> Calum.
>>
>> >
>> > -----Embedded Message-----
>> > From: "Guy Lunardi" <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
>> > To:  <[email protected]>
>> > Sent: Sun Oct 11 08:23:37 2009
>> > Subject: Do-Gooders and Other Free License Recipients...
>> > All,
>> >
>> > While I realize that their software doesn't use any GNOME
>> > technologies,
>> > it is still a very useful tool that I personally use often for
>> > projects.
>> >
>> > I was wondering if anyone thought that contacting Balsamiq and asking
>> > them to consider donating licenses to GNOME Foundation members would
>> > be
>> > useful?
>> > http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups
>> >
>> > Having used their software for quite some time, I know that the
>> > projects
>> > we used it for had a much great user experience focus during the early
>> > development cycles because of it.
>> >
>> > It might be a great opportunity for GNOME to increase its emphasis on
>> > user experience. We could for example use this software as part of
>> > some
>> > of our outreach programs (collect feedback earlier on designs).
>> >
>> > Please let me know what you think.
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > -Guy
>> >
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