FLOSS Usability Sprint III: October 27-29, 2006
Aspiration and Blue Oxen Associates hosted the third FLOSS Usability Sprint on October 27-29, 2006 at Google in Mountain View, California. At the sprint, open source developers, usability practitioners, project managers, and users gathered to discuss methodologies for improving the usability of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) and to apply those processes towards specific projects. The goal was two-fold: To improve the usability of the participating projects, and to catalyze greater shared understanding and ongoing collaboration between the usability and open source communities. (597)
This was our third sprint, after throwing two successful sprints in February and August 2005. As always, our focus was on working with a fantastic set of free (libre) / open source (FLOSS) software projects, focusing especially on users from nonprofit organizations. (598)
As always, the event was documented on our event Wiki under Creative Commons license. (599)