Call for participation to F/OSS Usability Workshop

Theme: Empowering F/OSS applications with a usability focus: designing 
for a successful project

Are you involved in a F/OSS project? Are you having problems involving 
usability processes in your product or service? Do you want a 
user-oriented application, but do not know how? Do you have significant 
outcomes of an experiment, observation or a use-case? This 1-day 
workshop bundled with seminars, panels and poster sessions will serve as 
a learning basis for both F/OSS developers and usability specialists.

This workshop has 3 main goals. The participants will

    * have an understanding of the current relationship between F/OSS 
and usability, together with problems, barriers and actions taken.
    * understand how F/OSS and usability will cooperate across the 
organization or a project.
    * have the ability to integrate their refreshed usability skills and 
the project they are involved.

We welcome anyone interested in design of F/OSS products and involving 
usability in F/OSS: developers, usability experts, user interface 
designers and end-users. Participation is free of charge

Date: 15 December, 2006
Place: Blue Room, CINECA (Bologna, Italy)

Important dates:

1 December 2006: Last day for applications
3 December 2006: Notification of acceptance
4 December 2006: Fixing the workshop program
15 December 2006: Workshop

Workshop page: http://www.tossad.org/tossad/events/f_oss_usability_workshop

Best
Görkem