[Sigia-l] CFP - FLOSS Usability Sprint V

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   - What: Sprint #5 for improving the usability of FLOSS
   - When: Friday Nov 2nd - Sunday Nov 4th, 2007
   - Where: Google<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=google&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.160552,62.578125&ie=UTF8&ei=_cMOR9HsGqeKjQP3_vjUCw&sig2=7YaIfBpkAdSiTecO9UF2bA&cd=1&cid=37423154,-122084918,17163390823250487868&li=lmd&z=14&t=m>,
   Mountain View, CA, USA

The fifth FLOSS Usability Sprint will be held on November 2-4, 2007 at
Google <http://www.google.com/> in Mountain View, California. At the sprint,
open source developers, usability practitioners, project managers, and users
will gather to discuss methodologies for improving the usability of
Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) and to apply those processes towards
specific projects. The goal is two-fold: To improve the usability of the
participating projects, and to
catalyze<http://www.flossusability.org/wiki.pl?TheBigPicture>greater
shared understanding and ongoing collaboration between the usability
and open source communities.    <http://www.flossusability.org/#nid1>

This will be our fifth sprint, after throwing successful sprints in
February<http://www.flossusability.org/200502/index.html>and
August <http://www.flossusability.org/200508/index.html> 2005, October
2006<http://www.flossusability.org/200610/index.html>,
and March 2007 <http://www.flossusability.org/200703/index.html>. This
upcoming sprint will have the added bonus of being the first organized by
the community itself! As always, our focus will be on working with a
fantastic set of free (libre) / open source (FLOSS) software projects,
focusing especially on users from nonprofit organizations. This year, we'll
also spend some time organizing our first remote usability sprint.
<http://www.flossusability.org/#nid13>

If you are a usability practitioner, FLOSS developer, or user and are
interested in participating, please fill out our
application<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/Aspiration/event/index.jsp?event_KEY=31473&t=aspiration.dwt>at
http://www.flossusability.org/ <http://www.flossusability.org/#nid37K>