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Season of Usability 2008 - Project Openings

2008, March 17.
We are proud to announce 9 project openings for students:

Each Season of Usability project has challenging goals and is mentored by an experienced usability specialist. During a three-month cooperation, you will closely work together with experienced professionals and get insights in to their way of work.

Depending on your location, you will be invited to a meeting with the development and usability team. Otherwise the collaboration will take place via the established channels of OSS development - email, IRC, VoIP, and etc.

You receive a stipend of $1000 USD. An involvement of 15 hours per week is expected. We accept 10 students for the nine projects.

If you are a student of usability, user-interface design, and interaction design or related subjects:

  • Apply for a project by sending your application including a short CV and why you chose this project to students at openusability org.
  • Application Deadline: 2008, April 14
  • Project Timeframe: 2008 May - July/August
  • Qualification: All projects require experience in interface and interaction design and/or usability analysis methods. However, this is meant to be a learning experience, so don't worry as long as you understand the basics in design and usability.

Project Openings

Project Opening 1:
Redesigning DrProject's Administration Interface		 DrProject Logo
Project Opening 2:
Redesigning Gallery's Image Upload Tools		 Gallery Logo
Project Opening 3:
Human Interface Guidelines and Design Patterns for KDE4		 KDE Logo
Project Opening 4:
Toolbox and Palette Interaction for KOffice		 KOffice Logo
Project Opening 5:
3d Widgets for MakeHuman		 MakeHuman Logo
Project Opening 6:
Handheld-Mode Interface for the OLPC XO Laptops		 One Laptop Per Child Logo
Project Opening 7:
Improving HDR imaging with Qtpfsgui		 Qtfsgui Logo
Project Opening 8:
Instant Messaging and VoIP with SIP Communicator		 SIP Communicator Logo
Project Opening 9:
Supporting TV Viewers with TV-Browser		 TV Browser Logo

Update March 31: Unfortunately, the Pidgin student project was called back. As an alternative, the usability mentor now offers HDR imaging with Qtpfsgui. We are sorry for the inconvenience and encourage you to apply for this or one of the alternative projects!