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I'm a Interaction Designer at OpenBossa/INdT - Manaus. In the last three year I've contributed to the Interaction Design, Graphic Design and Rapid Prototyping of many projects for Internet Tablets and Mobile Phones, like Canola 1, Canola 2, Carman and Home Control Center. I've also contributed to some community projects like GPS Camera and E-Coach and helped to forge the new maemo.org visual identity.

http://maemo.org/profile/view/mperes/

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HI, I'm interested too,

http://maemo.org/profile/view/b0unc3/


I'm not an UX coders , but I would like to know more and I think this is the right chance.
I'm interested in UI design and usability, but at the moment, I have done nothing relevant. I've followed some extra-course at University focused on this topic.
Of course, I can cede my place to another UX hackers


Daniele.

I am also interested!

My maemo profile:

http://maemo.org/profile/view/mike_morrison/

And two of the projects that I'm working on:

• quiver
• gtktide

I've ported gtktide to Maemo 5 but I have a few more tweeks to make before submitting it to extras. I haven't ported quiver yet although it builds 'as-is' in scratchbox. It will require some work before it looks nice in maemo 5. I think this hackfest would be a great place to get ideas on enhancing the user experience in both of these programs.

quiver could also be used as one of the example for a program "needing workin in usability" or "needing work in graphics".

Concept: Simple Video Editor

Lets you cut, merge and title videos taken say with your phone's camera and title them ready to keep, share with friends, facebook, flickr etc.

Concept: Simple Video Slideshow creator

Lets you select photos and some audio and creates a slideshow video ready to share.

zaheerm, good that I happen to know you are http://zaheer.merali.org/ = one of the GStreamer rock stars around. The simple video editor sounds like a good idea for concepting but... do you mean really starting from scratch? What do you think about getting Bilboed in the loop (another GStreamer Maemo lover) and work to bring PiTiVi to Maemo 5? http://www.pitivi.org/ Or something along those lines not to start from scratch.

Video editor is something currently missing and the N900 is capable of capturing great video shots, so the idea makes total sense and we are willing to support it.

lcuk, I was wondering if the best favour the Long Weekend could do to liqbase was on concepting, since I believe this is still the biggest weakness in that project. Once the concept is clear I'm sure you will have or find the hands to make it more usable and beautiful.

Also, did someone think of Mauku as a good candidate for the Graphics day?

quim,

the concept is easiest for me to talk about, hard to write down

the elevator pitch comes down to:

liqbase is an ideas playground.
i want a wall mounted computer to replace my pinboard and use small human oriented apps with sketch based input.
i want it to talk to my handhelds and sync so when tracy makes a note that shes working it will be updated on mine.
i want it to be usable by computerphobes and kids and the elderly (before you dismiss yourself, think of you in 50 years, I am..!) - it should be ubiquitous and intuitive computing.

my biggest lacking skill is presentation :$

It's out of scope to start another thread about the core purpose of liqbase here, but the purpose of the hackfest is precisely that others tell you how to improve the concept/usability/graphics of your project.

After all this time and all this fuzz liqbase still is far from having delivered a product, even if it contains all the elements to become a successful product. Probably a core problem is the lack of a crispy concept, and I'm not the first one telling you this (neither for the first time).

So I would say that if you want to keep having your own "liqbase framework" approach in the lines described above, fair enough. If instead you are welcoming external ideas to get that sketch based application organizing your stuff neatly in a visual calendar, then your project is a good candidate for Friday.

Lcuk, I would personally love one or two clear and easy to understand and to use tasks than a wonderful playground of everything possible in the world.

Your stuff rocks, but in order for a lot of people to start using it, having one or two clear use cases from the very start to the very end (including features where you could easily export the stuff out of liqbase and publish/send it to someone else), I think that would be really cool.

Edit: Sorry for thread hijacking, this discussion should probably continue in some other thread.

This one comes to mind: A plea to lcuk.

Let's go back to topic.

Porting PiTiVi would work, but the UI would need to be tailored for the N900. PiTiVi (and gnonlin/gstreamer) has a lot of guts needed for a video editor behind the scenes so using it and a UI designed for the N900 with the simple use cases that one could and want to do on that form factor with the hardware it has would make a lot of sense.

Bringing Edward in would also be great, he only lives in central Barcelona