Sakai Design Patterns Library WG Weekly Meeting
2007-05-07/08 at 23:00 UTC time (3pm PST/6pm EST/8am Sydney)
Note taker: Tim
Facilitator: Marc
Conference Call Info
Dial-in #: 734-615-6802
Password: 5624
Agenda
ToDo's and notes from last meeting
- Marc to make an inline list of potential patterns
- Daphne, Judy and Marc all still need to put their studies into synth doc
New stuff
- any patterns to review?
- U-Camp planning
- patterns and roadmap: let's talk about what's our progress at this point in time, where we are going before the conference
Notes
In attendance: Aaron, Colin, Daphne, Jackie, Judy, Julie, Marc, Tim
Note taker/facilitator rotation: Colin, Daphne, Jackie, Judy, Julie, Kathy, Marc, Tim
- Special thanks to Aaron for staying up late and joining us.
- It was decided to concentrate on the U-Camp Planning given the time to the conference.
- Aaron spoke on the RSF workshop idea and riased a number if ideas including how RSF theory works with usability, templates and experiences. It was agreed that real world scenarios or walk through examples would be the most beneficial. Aaron will talk with Harriet regarding this. A 40 min talk followed by 10 min of Q&A was suggested.
- Colin and Daphne talked about the FLUID presentation in the main conference and thought that a directed feedback / Q&A tailored to the U-Camp audience taking around 30 min would be good.
- The group then discussed the other workshop ideas:
- The collaborative design project was decided to be more appropraite as a BOF if there are any tools that would like this.
- The collaborative project definition was agreed to manage effectively in a large group - the key is to getting the project right and a different way of writing requirements. Stanford (Marc) have a number of design tool ideas that might be good to use for heuristic reviews by small groups. Small group leaders to be Daphne, Marc, ... ?
- Restyling the Skin - Gonzalo is presenting a workshop on this in the main conference, and a number of suggestions were made showing a range of skinning options, from the out-of-the-box skin, to minor changes, to a complete redesign that is substantially different from the default skin. Ideas of parcicular interest to the expected audience include what can be changed and how easy it is to change - Skinning for Dummies tailored for the audience. A 30 min talk (not workshop) was agreed on.
- Use the Patterns Library - there was discussion on how this might work, and decided what creation of a design spec that clearly articulated the design requirements, with a panel of a number of institutions talking about the design ideas that have worked for them, giving the audience a series of tried and tested successful ideas. Tim foolishly offered to chair the panel at this point
. Each organisation would have 8-10 minutes to talk about what did (and didnt) work for them. Daphne related her experiences of a similar panel where the facilitator asked the audience a series of yes/no design questions and then turned the responses over to the panel for discussion, with example questions such as "Do you believe that User Testing is important?" - Tim will update the draft plan and continue the work over email given the timeframes involved.