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Lecture on usability and free/open source software development

Last Wednesday (11/18/2009) I gave my first lecture at Carnegie Mellon University. The event itself was exciting enough but on top of that I got talk about my practical experiences with SONIVIS. In the beginning I wasn’t sure if this topic was interesting enough for my audience but in the end it was. We had [...]

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Usability in small-sized open source software projects

Yesterday I attended a talk given by Michael Terry from the University of Waterloo. It primarily dealt with usability in free/open source projects. He introduced ingimp, a tool implemented to support usability in open source software. This tool extends the existing functionality of GIMP by logging the day-to-day-practices of users. All gathered data are publicly [...]

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