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Monday, 02 Nov 2009
Bjoern Michaelsen
A short look at the parallelization in the OpenOffice.org build process on Linux.[Read More]
tags: build gullfoss linux openoffice.org parallelization scalability
Thursday, 26 Feb 2009
Matthias Mueller-Prove
Thursday, 12 Jul 2007
Matthias Mueller-Prove
In terms of bookmark counts in del.icio.us Jonathan's blog leads 319 to 19. To ease the creation of such bookmarks for GullFOSS, I've just added a link to the right column.
cheers,
Matthias
tags: gullfoss
Thursday, 24 May 2007
Matthias Mueller-Prove
The latest issue of interfaces contains an article on our User Experience Project. If you are not a member of the British HCI group, you can read “User Experience for OpenOffice.org” on our OOo user experience website.
Quote:
The first rule of open source development is also the reason for an inherent usability problem: "Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch."
The result is a self-referential system – developers develop for themselves rather than for the average user or the target audience. Usability engineering is considered as superfluous extra. However, to provide a good user experience, it is the user's itch that needs to be scratched.
This article presents user experience activities in the context of OpenOffice.org. The author – co-lead of the User Experience Project – will discuss the status of building an open source community of usability professionals to improve the usefulness and usability of the application.
cheers,
Matthias
Friday, 09 Feb 2007
Matthias Mueller-Prove
Gee -- catchy titles seem to work. I can see the question marks all over your heads. OK, back to the serious stuff. We are working on a strategy for the new User Experience project on OpenOffice.org. Several communication channels need to be balanced in order to use our energy efficiently to achieve an optimal outreach and involvement of the open source usability community. And now let me introduce the 4 dimensions of user experience communication:
The page at ux.openoffice.org is our official home. The way this site is hosted makes it a bit cumbersome to grant write access in a way that supports contributions. Therefore we will use the OpenOffice wiki as a space that invites people to collaborate on topics that matter to improve the usability of OpenOffice.org. A third channel of communication is our mail alias (and newsgroup) discuss@ux.openoffice.org. This medium is well suited to actually drive the discussions because the messages find you and tend to start glowing in your inbox. Last not least, blog postings on user-experience shall also be used to inform the OOo community and to attract folks from the blogosphere to our project(s).
cheers,
Matthias
- Part 1: User Experience Cyberspace Is 4-dimensional
- Part 2: User Experience Cyberspace Has 7 Dimensions, maybe 8
- Part 3: McLuhan was an Information Architect
- Part 4: it is the user's itch that needs to be scratched
tags: gullfoss user-experience
Thursday, 02 Nov 2006
Matthias Mueller-Prove
Hi, I just added some random flickr photos to the right bar on GullFOSS. Hope you like them.
Cheers,
Matthias
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Friday, 06 Oct 2006
Matthias Mueller-Prove
Inspired by Martin's posting on communication channels along the dimensions synchronism and persistence I created my own point of view and nudged the curcles around quite some inches.
The image
links to a larger image. This
sentence links to the OpenDocument Draw
document.
cheers
Matthias
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Monday, 25 Sep 2006
Stefan Taxhet
Gullfoss in the south of Iceland is the largest waterfall in Europe. Using this new group blog, we would like to provide you with a constant stream of information about our view into the development of
OpenOffice.org.
The content will mainly be written by the project leads and engineers at Sun. We will provide both status updates and highlights of special accomplishments.
Going forward we hope the blog will serve as a way for both new and old developers to feel the heart beat of the Sun team. We will add tags and categories, depending mainly on how the content evolves. As all blogging is a two way experience, please give us feedback on what you would like to read about. Or even better, blog it!
The name Gullfoss is a small pun on our mascot and the Free/Open Source Software movement we are part of.
tags: gullfoss
