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Monday, 16 January 2006 |
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Jonathan Riddell, who is maintainer of the "People behind KDE" series has made an interview with me. Here are the results. Thank you, Jonathan! |
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Saturday, 31 December 2005 |
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Pardus 1.0 is out with some innovative ideas (yes, implemented, also!). For some screenshots, check Çaglar's blog and see how it looks like. We love our Pardus! |
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Monday, 26 December 2005 |
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Pardus is an easy to install and use Linux distribution, with many enhancements to desktop usability, compatibility and security. One interesting point with Pardus is that, it has its own package manager, PiSi, which has its own characteristics and advantages over other package managers. With PiSi, developers can enjoy packaging new software in an efficient way. End users will get comfortable with PiSi's fast and hassle-free software installation interface. With a few clicks, you can easily search for utilities you need and install it on your disk. Another feature is YALI, which is a Linux installer written from scratch.
Pardus comes with one CD and additional software can be downloaded from PiSi GUI. Pardus 1.0 can be installed in Turkish and English and downloaded from ftp.uludag.org.tr.
Meanwhile, you can check Uludağ web page for latest Pardus news.
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Thread from agile usability list |
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Saturday, 03 December 2005 |
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Nice conversation in agile-usability ML on Yahoogroups. Tobias Mayer asks: "A few months ago I read a posting on this list which expressed something to the effect of (and I paraphrase as I cannot find the reference): good UI design is not necessarily instantly intuitive. Users need to be taught a new UI; the trick is to teach them only once. On second and subsequent uses the UI should be intuitive. And Jon Meads answers: A good quote I once heard was that "The only thing that is intuitive is a mother's nipple, everything else is learned." When someone talks about an intuitive UI, they are talking about a UI that matches the user's previous expereinces so well that it is easily and quickly recognizable in terms of affordance and navigation. And, understanding what they would be means understanding the users very well -- which means taking the time to identify who the users are and study them. |
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Wednesday, 30 November 2005 |
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Karl Fogel, one of the main developers of Subversion project, released a book "Producing Open Source Software", which is for any developer who wants to run a successful F/OSS project, from choosing a name to maintaining a mailing list, from communication to packaging and releasing the software. The ideas are presented in a concise and clean manner, which lets almost every F/OSS hobbiest understand the working principles of such a project. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License, so you can start downloading and reading it |
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Friday, 11 November 2005 |
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I'll be in Munich between 19-23 November, for the kick-off meteting of OTC (Open Trusted Computing), a 3-year project with 23 different partners, including TUBITAK/UEKAE. For now, the project web site does not include much information, but this will probably change over the next few weeks. If you are one of those who is expert with beers, please drop me a note where I can find good quality German beer.
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1000 PCs migrated to Linux |
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Friday, 11 November 2005 |
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Dutch Record Shop Chain Migrates 1000 PCs to KDE on Novell Linux Desktop. Yet the Dutch Free Record Shop is deploying it on a large scale as the operating system for their point of sale systems.
According to Arrachart (CEO) although all essential components are present, a great deal of software has been stripped out of the KDE Desktop GUI. The applications remaining include a PDF viewer and X Server, with KDE's Kiosk mode and associated admin tool being used to
lock down the configuration.
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OSS in government organization |
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Wednesday, 02 November 2005 |
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The public launch of the National Center for Open Source Policy and Research (NCOSPR) was recently announced during a presentation at the Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) hosted by the Oregon State University's Open Source Lab in Portland, Oregon.
For those interested, here's the link to the web site.
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Wednesday, 19 October 2005 |
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In World Usability Day, over 75 local events will take place in 25 different countries to promote the field of usability. This day is for everyone who has ever used technology and wondered: "Why doesn't this work right? What am I supposed to do now?"
Pick up your country and join usability professionalists on November, 3rd. Note that there's no event in Turkey reported yet. Maybe you can take an initiative and join the (silent) forces around.
Stories make it real, also. The ones you'll read on the web page (www.worldusabilityday.org) are about real people, real problems, and sometimes, really elegant solutions. These stories can be used by anyone who needs to tell the story of usability -- whether citizen, journalist, or usability professional. |
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Leaving for OS World Conf |
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Sunday, 09 October 2005 |
Between 23-30 October, I'll be in Merida, Spain for 2nd Open Source
World Conference. Within this time frame, we'll also be discussing
about tOSSad project, handling a steering committe meeting together
with workpackage 1,2 and 3
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