On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Andre Klapper <[email protected]> wrote: > Google Code-In starts again. > GNOME took part in it last year already.
> * User Interface: Tasks related to user experience research or user interface > design and interaction > > For more info check out > http://www.google-melange.com/gci/document/show/gci_program/google/gci2011/about > > > === How to participate === > > GNOME needs 5 tasks in each of the 8 categories (=40 tasks in total) > until October 31st in order to participate in GCI. > That's in a few days already, so hurry up if you have an idea! > That would be the first batch of tasks. > A second batch would be published on December 16th. > > Tasks need a clear description, one or more defined mentors, an expected > timeframe to solve them, and difficulty (easy, medium, hard). > > More info for mentors is available here: > http://code.google.com/p/google-code-in/wiki/GCIAdminMentorInformation > > No ideas? Check out for example KDE's list: > http://community.kde.org/GoogleCodeIn/2011/Ideas > > You could even add generic tasks: Add three GCI tasks "Fix a bug of your > choice for the product $foo in GNOME Bugzilla" (one easy, one medium and > one hard), let the student pick a bug, and then tell her/him whether to > claim the easy, medium or hard task for it. > Just a very rough idea: will it be a suitable task to "check dialog/windows/theme/etc dimension against netbook"? one task per application. Participant only need to list which app and which dialog/window/etc is unusable/hard to use on netbook having resolution 800x480 or so. Test can be done under VM with guest window resized to that resolution number. Regards, -- andika _______________________________________________ usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
