Fluid Project Birds of a Feather (BOF) Meetings at the Sakai and JA-SIG Conferences

If you're planning to attend either conference and would like to join as at a Fulid Project BOF meeting, please sign up here.

7th Sakai Conference, Amsterdam: Friday, June 15th, 9:00 - 16:00 in Zurich 2

Overview

For the Sakai conference, we are planning an all-day meeting. For those new to the project, this will be an opportunity to learn more about the project and find out how you can get involved,. For those of us who are already in the midst of design and development work, this BOF will provide time to plan and discuss our ongoing work.

Where & When

June 15th, 2007 9am - 4pm
Room: Zurich 2
Movenpick Hotel
Piet Heinkade 11
1019 BR Amsterdam, Netherlands

Agenda

Overview of the Fluid Project
Project Coordination Update
- Community development
- User Interface Inspections
- Lightbox Component Development
How to Get Involved
- User Experience
- Accessibility
- Technical Architecture
Suggested Topics for Afternoon Working Meeting:
- Fluid and OSP
- Integrating Fluid into Sakai
- Prioritization for UI Inspection of Sakai
- User Interface adaptation for accessibility, language and culture
- Challenges of modular interface design
- User-centered design - what does it mean in Fluid? Are there methods, practices, artifacts, we want to encourage, standardize on, etc. (personas, scenarios, user testing reports, etc.)?
- Add your topic suggetions here

Sign Up if You're Planning to Attend

	Name	Institution	Country	Role	Notes
1	Colin Clark	University of Toronto	CA	Fluid Project Lead Developer	Looking forward to it!
2	Daphne Ogle	University of California, Berkeley	USA	Fluid Project Design Lead	Can't wait to flesh out some of the work and ideas so far and getting lots of feedback from the community!
3	Jutta Treviranus	University of Toronto ATRC	CA	PI	Hope to welcome new people to the Fluid effort
4	Michelle D'Souza	University of Toronto ATRC	CA	Agile Coordinator, Software Developer	I'm joining remotely from Toronto when I wake up - likely for the afternoon working meeting
5	Mike Elledge	Michigan State University UAC	USA	Usability and accessibility guy	This is a fabulous project that will have a profound impact on open source user experience
6	Josh Holtzman	UC Berkeley	USA	Developer
7	Ray Davis	UC Berkeley	USA	Developer
8	Oliver Heyer	UC Berkeley	USA	Manager
9	Clay Fenlason	Georgia Tech	USA	Manager	Looking to leverage Fluid for long-term design work taken on by Resources team, and opportunities for collaboration
10	Mara Hancock	University of California, Berkeley	USA	Assoc. Director	Interested in facilitating more conversations about how to focus the Fluid effort on Sakai and having the Berkeley development team talk in more depth with the Cambridge and UT developers
11	Wytze Koopal	University of Twente	NL	Projectmanager, Educational Designer	Interested in usability, user delight.

JA-SIG Summer 2007 Conference, Denver: Time and date TBD

At the JA-SIG conference, Paul Zablosky, Gary Thompson, and I have scheduled a 1-hour general User Experience BOF, which will include a discussion of the Fluid Project.

	Name	Institution	Country	Role	Notes
1	Colin Clark	University of Toronto	CA	Fluid Project Lead Developer	Looking forward to it!
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