2011/9/2 Tobias Ehni :

Dear list,

there have been some updates on the usability wiki as work is progressing.

Method description has moved a bit: http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Mental_Models_for_GIMP Please let me know if there is something to clarify or to discuss in more detail here.

Next, I've posted some ideas of where to recruit further interview partners under "recruitment channels". Feel free to add your own ideas there. Luckily, there have been recommendations for interview partners on this list as well (thanks Ramón).

There's a new section "interview partners" (http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Interview_Partners). My idea of how to handle the recruitment process with this section is as follows:
The section is divided into "confirmed" and "pool", so that interested people can be put under "pool", most helpfully including a link to a website / portfolio of them. If both of the GIMP-Team and they themselves confirm an interview, they will get promoted into the "confirmed" section. During this process, they can select a time/date for their interview via http://doodle.com/ which can also be added to their name in the confirmed section. As a next step, I will ask the people who have been recommended earlier on this list if they would like to participate. Does that make sense to you?

Further, I've provided information about the interviews here: http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Information_for_Interview_Partners Main audience for this is of course the interview partners. Please take a quick look and tell me if I missed something.

Reinforcements are under way / being requested (in the form of a volunteer / intern for the project)
http://www.openusability.org/index.php/sou/projects

I'm also thinking about an IRC meeting on usability in order to: - clarify details about the method
- gather ideas for recruiting
- add interview partners to the pool - talk about next steps
What do you think?

Hi Tobias,

I think it would be good to keep the discussion on this list rather than moving to IRC as we don't have central archives of discussions on IRC.

I'm afraid I don't have much input at this point, but it looks like you are doing the right things, so please keep going and keep us informed on the progress. It will be interesting to see the end result.

BR,
Martin

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On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Martin Nordholts wrote:

I think it would be good to keep the discussion on this list rather than moving to IRC as we don't have central archives of discussions on IRC.

Meetings can be transcribed/copied to the list and the wiki, if they are conducted in an organized manned. Some discussions are better held with minimal latency. So Im all for having a meeting.