Call for Students - Season of Usability 2008
I am proud to announce the Season of Usability 2008, a series of projects for students of usability, user interface design, interaction design and related.
We accept 10 students for design tasks, user research and UI analysis. The openings represent a wide range of applications, such as instant messaging, office suites, web applications and the One Laptop Per Child desktop.
With regard to KDE, Celeste and me will accept two students to continue the work on Human Interface Guidelines and Design Patterns for KDE4. Also, we will accept a student for KOffice.
If you are a student of usability, user interface design or related, send us your application until April, 14. Project work will start in May and will take approximately 3 months. An involvement of 15 hours per week is expected.
Students receive a stipend of $1000 USD, kindly sponsored by Google Inc., the Open Society Institute and Trolltech ASA.
Other project openings include:
- Redesigning DrProject’s Administration Interface
- Redesigning Gallery’s Image Upload Tools
- 3d Widgets for MakeHuman
- Handheld-Mode Interface for the OLPC XO Laptops
- Analysing Pidgin’s status quo and making design suggestions
- Instant Messaging and VoIP with SIP Communicator
- Supporting TV Viewers with TV-Browser
See the project details at the Season of Usability website
March 17th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
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March 17th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Thank you for making this possible! I can’t wait to beginn working with the student.
We will announce this to our Users tonight. Hopefully we will find some good candidates for this program.
March 17th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Please link to it from the Summer of Code page on Techbase, if you haven’t already
March 18th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
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March 25th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Hello,
I am a Usability Student from the Polytechnic of Namibia. I am Currently doing My Masters in Information Technology, with a particular interest in Usability, Interface Design and Help Systems. I would like to participate in the above project and can be contacted using the addresses underneath.
Regards,
Gatonye Edward.
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Edward Gatonye Mwangi,
Junior Lecturer,
School of Information Technology,
Department of Software Engineering,
Polytechnic of Namibia,
Office : +264 - 61 - 2072546
Cell : +264 - 81 - 1491099
+264 - 81 - 2005050
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