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Monday, 20 Apr 2009

This is YOUR Chance to Improve the OOo UI! Don't Miss It!

Elizabeth Matthis

Get Busy! Get Creative!

It's finally here...the official begin of the prototyping phase of the Renaissance project. The call for design ideas in the form of proposals has been posted on the wiki. Please hurry and check it out. There are instructions and a schedule: deadline for submissions is May 4th!

Here is an excerpt from the wiki page (see wiki for full details):

Procedure

In order to participate in submitting a design proposal, please follow these steps:

Use the template for creating a design proposal and work out your design (see Design Proposal Template).
Send a short email to ui@ux.openoffice.org to announce that you have started working. This is so that everyone knows how many people are working on proposals and how they can be contacted.
Work while keeping your proposal contents secret until the date for publishing the design proposals (see Schedule).
Publish your proposal on the wiki and announce it with a link on ui@ux.openoffice.org (see Design Proposals Submitted and Design Proposal Wiki Template)

If you have any questions or comments at any time, please send a mail to the ui@ux.openoffice.org mailing list.

If you have great ideas, you won't want to miss this chance to be involved. Even if you aren't interested in designing a new user experience for accessing functionality, then pass this announcement on to your friends who might be.

Start working as an individual or as a team today and maybe your idea will be one that gets implemented in OpenOffice.org Impress!

tags: impress renaissance user-experience

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Sven said:

Still no explanation about Oracle?

Posted by Sven on April 21, 2009 at 08:49 PM CEST #

OOo_fAN said:

Hi Elizabeth,
till May 4th is not really a lot time. Moreover, this canal seems to be the only place promoting this possibility in the web. That's a pity since your surveys and other sources clearly show that people want a change in the interface of OOo/Impress. I guess there are many with good ideas out there.

No Shlashdot, LXer, ...?

The KOffice people had a "little" prize for the winner.
http://www.koffice.org/competition/guiKOffice2.php
Do you see any option for a prize (e.g. an OpenOffice.org shirt, pen drive, ...)?
Since I'm not a good designer I cannot offer any proposals here, sorry.

Regards
OOo_fAN

Posted by OOo_fAN on April 22, 2009 at 06:56 PM CEST #

Graham Perrin said:

@ OOo_fAN

Renaissance was announced a few months ago http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/project_renaissance_kick_off1 and since then the discussions have been great, often intense!

Wiki leads to the roadmap, http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance:The_Roadmap

If you'd like to catch up with things: http://www.diigo.com/04ipb highlights the relevant list.

Personally I'm using Nabble to catch up, http://n2.nabble.com/-f1803106.html

Posted by Graham Perrin on April 24, 2009 at 02:49 PM CEST #

OOo_fAN said:

Hi Graham,
I know Renaissance project from the beginning since I follow http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS . I just wanted to say that some more publicity might be beneficial for the project. http://www.oooninja.com/ is a somebody who is providing quite good information besides the official canals. Something like that is what I mean.

BTW, thanks for the links. Some of them were unknown to me.

Regards
OOo_fAN

Posted by OOo_fAN on April 25, 2009 at 09:33 PM CEST #