This post marks a new monthly record for blog posts: 21, and I haven’t even finished posting my Wikimania and BAR Camp notes. My active August is consistent with my normal blogging pattern. I think much of it has to do with my travel schedule, which typically takes me on the road from April through [...]
Another great FLOSS Usability Sprint is in the books. As usual, great people make for great gatherings, and this event was no exception. But we did have a new goal for this event, and it resulted in some different outcomes, many of which were related to this new notion of Extreme Usability. (JOS) I [...]
Most folks know Richard Gabriel for his Worse Is Better essays, his work with Pattern Languages, and his involvement with the Hillside Group, among many other things. I know him as an invaluable and exceptionally generous sounding board for my crazy ideas over the past three years. (JOQ) Now there’s an opportunity to know [...]
In preparation for next week’s sprint, I’ve added some thoughts on what Extreme Usability is. Of interest to many people will be the link to an interview between Kent Beck and Alan Cooper on whether User-Centered Design and Extreme Programming can coexist. (JOJ)
I spoke at IDRC last June, helping Allen Gunn with a workshop on facilitation and giving what’s becoming a stock talk on patterns and Collaborative Tools. For those of you who haven’t seen me give the talk or heard me run my mouth in person, the fundamental premise is simple: The best way to think [...]
Chris Messina and others are organizing BAR Camp this weekend at Socialtext‘s offices in Palo Alto. It’s a grassroots gathering of techies doing cool stuff that’s open to all, an open alternative to O’Reilly’s invitation-only FOO Camp, which is happening the same weekend in Sebastopol. Even though it was literally organized this week, a lot [...]
Ron Lichty has posted an excellent summary of the “Architecting Community and Collaboration Solutions” SofTECH / SDForum meeting last month. (JOB)
“FLOSS Usability II: Extreme Usability” is happening next week, Monday through Wednesday. Looks like we’ve got another excellent slate of participants, including many old and new faces. This will be a smaller sprint than the last, as our focus will be slightly different. We’re going to explore the notion of Extreme Usability, which emerged from [...]
A suggestion for Jimmy Wales‘s list of things that need to be free: Free identity! (JNG) “Free” in this case has a different meaning than it does than it does with the other items on Jimbo’s list. We need to free our digital identities from the organizational silos that currently collect and control information [...]
Thoughts on Jimmy Wales‘s keynote at Wikimania. Read Ross Mayfield‘s post for a more extensive summary: (JN8) “1. Free the encyclopedia!” Jimbo considers the English and German Wikipedias “done,” and he expects the rest to be complete in about 10 years. His metric is 250,000 pages of content. (JN9) “3. Free the curriculum!” [...]
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