RE: in the beginning....

> I'm putting together a website that will have an intro to what this 
list is attempting to accomplish, links to the KDE UIG and Gnome HIG, 
a list archive, and short developer bio's. Completed specs can be added 
as they're created. I'll post a link Thursday and, if people like, we 
can move it over to freedesktop.org. If anyone has any suggestions as 
to what else I should add, please post.
> 
> J.

I've put together a pretty good list for the class I created, you're
welcome to take any of them and I'd appreciate anymore you find.

http://www.clarkson.edu/~clarkbw/hci/links.php

~ Bryan

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>  --- On Tue 02/04, Aaron J. Seigo < [email protected] > wrote:
> From: Aaron J. Seigo [mailto: [email protected]]
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 11:06:24 -0700
> Subject: in the beginning....
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> ... the list was formless and void. ;-)
> 
> open-hci is the result of a series of conversations that have gone on for 
> many, many months primarily between Seth, JP and myself, with later input 
> from Havoc and the knowledge of other developers, such as Waldo.
> 
> so, just WHAT was our hope and desire for this list? well, to start moving the 
> UI guidelines of the projects closer together, and to start addressing UI 
> issues collectively rather than seperately.
> 
> this does not mean we are aiming for mutual agreement on all things. but it 
> will allow us, IMO, to pool talent, efforts and time, the bulk of which 
> probably can benefit all projects out there.
> 
> ok, words and ideas and hand waving are nice, what do we need to do to get the 
> ball rolling? here's a short list:
> 
>  o A web site. We need a small yet informative website that can detail what it 
> is we're doing, the existence of this list and a place for us to link the 
> results of our work from. We can host it at the neutral ground of 
> freedesktop.org
> 
>  o Links. We need an HTML page that lists links to all of the existing 
> documents so we have a starting point.
> 
>  o A document format. We need to settle (quickly) on a final document format. 
> Docbook is a candidate, but we need to look at what sort of methodology we 
> wish to employ. Do we want to work on both documents in parallel files, or do 
> we want to work on folding both documents into one "metafile" that can be 
> processed to present either a KDE- or GNOME- specific final result. The 
> latter sounds more ambitious to me, but also perhaps a good way of doing 
> things if only because it allows us to truly share the common parts of the 
> resulting documents.
> 
>  o What documents we want to create. Personally, I feel that we should be 
> aiming for a few different documents including:
> 
>      o a HIG document
>      o a principles document
> 
> The principles document should cover the items that are truly implementation 
> agnostic but important (the definition of a "sane UI" that Waldo mentioned 
> earlier). I don't think we need to rewrite the book on usability (that's been 
> done enough times) but I do think we should collect some basics.
> 
> personally, i'd really like to just "jump in and start swimming" but i know 
> that we have some deffinition work to do first. but let's keep this part 
> short, if possible, down to a week or two at the most and then get right into 
> the business of creating the documents.
> 
> if you'd like to take on any of the above items (e.g. the web site or links 
> page) please let us know and we can start moving on them ASAP.
> 
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> Aaron J. Seigo
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