It is a very good idea for the Free Software Foundation to ask free software users for short video-clips (2-5 minutes) about the question “why free software is important in everyday life”. In my point of view this new campaign will provide a better understanding of why people use free software and why it has [...]
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 [...]