Fluid June Conference Birds of a Feather (BOF) Meetings

Fluid Project Birds of a Feather (BOF) Meetings at the Sakai and JA-SIG Conferences

If you're planning to attend either conference and would like to join as at a Fulid Project BOF meeting, please sign up here.

7th Sakai Conference, Amsterdam: Friday, June 15th, 9:00 - 16:00 in Zurich 2

Overview

For the Sakai conference, we are planning an all-day meeting. For those new to the project, this will be an opportunity to learn more about the project and find out how you can get involved,. For those of us who are already in the midst of design and development work, this BOF will provide time to plan and discuss our ongoing work.

Where & When

June 15th, 2007 9am - 4pm
Room: Zurich 2
Movenpick Hotel
Piet Heinkade 11
1019 BR Amsterdam, Netherlands

Agenda

  • Overview of the Fluid Project
  • Project Coordination Update
    • Community development
    • User Interface Inspections
    • Lightbox Component Development
  • How to Get Involved
    • User Experience
    • Accessibility
    • Technical Architecture
  • Suggested Topics for Afternoon Working Meeting:
    • Fluid and OSP
    • Integrating Fluid into Sakai
    • Prioritization for UI Inspection of Sakai
    • User Interface adaptation for accessibility, language and culture
    • Challenges of modular interface design
    • User-centered design - what does it mean in Fluid?  Are there methods, practices, artifacts, we want to encourage, standardize on, etc. (personas, scenarios, user testing reports, etc.)? 
    • Add your topic suggetions here

Sign Up if You're Planning to Attend

 

Name

Institution

Country

Role

Notes

1

Colin Clark

University of Toronto

CA

Fluid Project Lead Developer

Looking forward to it!

2

Daphne Ogle

University of California, Berkeley

USA

Fluid Project Design Lead

Can't wait to flesh out some of the work and ideas so far and getting lots of feedback from the community!

3

Jutta Treviranus

University of Toronto ATRC

CA

PI

Hope to welcome new people to the Fluid effort

4

Michelle D'Souza

University of Toronto ATRC

CA

Agile Coordinator, Software Developer

I'm joining remotely from Toronto when I wake up - likely for the afternoon working meeting

5

Mike Elledge

Michigan State University UAC

USA

Usability and accessibility guy

This is a fabulous project that will have a profound impact on open source user experience

6

Josh Holtzman

UC Berkeley

USA

Developer


7

Ray Davis

UC Berkeley

USA

Developer


8

Oliver Heyer

UC Berkeley

USA

Manager


9

Clay Fenlason

Georgia Tech

USA

Manager

Looking to leverage Fluid for long-term design work taken on by Resources team, and opportunities for collaboration

10

Mara Hancock

University of California, Berkeley

USA

Assoc. Director

Interested in facilitating more conversations about how to focus the Fluid effort on Sakai and having the Berkeley development team talk in more depth with the Cambridge and UT developers

11

Wytze Koopal

University of Twente

NL

Projectmanager, Educational Designer

Interested in usability, user delight. 

JA-SIG Summer 2007 Conference, Denver: Time and date TBD

At the JA-SIG conference, Paul Zablosky, Gary Thompson, and I have scheduled a 1-hour general User Experience BOF, which will include a discussion of the Fluid Project.

 

Name

Institution

Country

Role

Notes

1

Colin Clark

University of Toronto

CA

Fluid Project Lead Developer

Looking forward to it!

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