GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest 2010
From February 22-26, 2010 the GNOME community will hold a Usability hackfest in London, England.
As GNOME 3.0 approaches, a usability focused hackfest is overdue. Now is an excellent opportunity for GNOME Usability to take a step forward, and this hackfest will provide the GNOME Usability team an opportunity to focus, set goals, and accomplish work to prepare the GNOME community for the GNOME 3.0 transition and the future.
Considering this is a Usability hackfest, it would be great if a volunteer could provide an icon or banner, and otherwise spruce up this Wiki page a bit. Have had a go, suggestions for improvement welcome! --CalumBenson
Venue
The event will be held at the Canonical offices in London, England:
- Canonical
27th floor, Millbank Tower, 21-24 Millbank
London SW1P 4QP, UK
Millbank Tower is near Pimlico Station (which is on the Victoria line) and near Westminster Station (which is on the Jubilee and District and Circle lines). The London Tube website provides information about the London subway system and has links to maps.
Sponsors
Much appreciation to the following sponsors who are making this event possible:
Goals and Agenda
See /GoalsAndAgenda for the latest proposed goals and agenda.
Travel and Accommodation
Both Palmers Lodge and Hillspring Lodge are close to Jubilee Line Stations (Swiss Cottage and Willesden Green) so getting to Westminster would be no problem - 10 to 20 minutes on the tube. Both hostels are very busy during the dates requested but could possibly accommodate a small group. This would be better at Hillspring because we have small rooms left (a few 4 bed and one 14-Bed) - it may not be possible to get your own group rooms at Palmers. If people express an interest in this option, please speak up so arrangements can be made.
The following have also been recommended as good budget hotels/hostels to consider:
- The Premier Inn is not too far away. They have rooms for between £92 and £117 a night (excluding breakfast).
- The Mitre House Hotel London is not too far away. They have rooms for around £80 per night.
- The German YMCA has also been recommended.
- Also consider checking London HostelWorld.
For people looking for a hotel close to the venue, the City Inn Westminster – London Hotel is just around the corner from the hackfest venue. The prices of their rooms are a bit inflated due to the location - week nights range between £180 and £190 a night per room (excluding VAT, without breakfast).
Public transport
London has an excellent public transportation system. Comprehensive travel advice, including a journey planner, can be found on on the Transport for London website. Visitors are advised to get a pay as you go Oyster card or a Travelcard. These are valid on all modes of transport and are much cheaper than buying individual tickets.
Leisure and Entertainment
A meal is being organised for the first night (Monday 22nd February). Please sign up using the attendees table below. There are also plans to have a GNOME LondonBeer event during the hackfest.
A Google Map has been put together showing recommended restaurants close to the hackfest venue and beyond. Further information about what to do in London can be obtained from TimeOut, Le Cool and Ldn. TimeOut produces a printed listings magazine each Wednesday which is available from most newsagents.
Feel free to contact AllanDay about social activities or for advice about where to eat and drink.
Attendees
Please add your name below if you plan on attending:
Name | Organization | Dates | Hotel/Accommodation | First night meal (y/n) |
Sun Microsystems and the GNOME Foundation | Feb 22-26 | |||
Charline Poirier | Canonical | Feb 22-26 | ||
Ivanka Majic | Canonical | Feb 22-26 | ||
William Jon McCann | Red Hat | Feb 20-28 | probably http://www.trebovirhotel.com/ | |
Jeremy Perry | Red Hat | Feb 20-28 | probably http://www.trebovirhotel.com/ | |
Calum Benson | Sun Microsystems | Feb 22-26 | Premier Inn | y |
Thomas Wood | Intel | Feb 22-26 | ||
Nick Richards | Intel | Feb 22-26 | ||
Hylke Bons | Intel | Feb 22-26 | ||
Karl Lattimer | Codethink | Feb 22-26 | ||
Feb 22-26 | y | |||
Jakub Steiner | Feb 22-26 | |||
Sun Microsystems | Feb 22-26 | |||
Red Hat | been there for ~10 years | |||
Red Hat | Feb 22-27 | |||
Novell | Feb 20-28 | |||
ain't got nothin' but a song in my heart | Feb 22-26 | |||
Ubuntu / GNOME Docs | Feb 24-25 | |||
OSS Watch | Feb 24-25 (@Dev8D) | |||
Emli-Mari Nel | University of Cambridge | Feb 25 | ||
Alan Lawrence | University of Cambridge | Feb 25 | ||
Patrick Welche | University of Cambridge | Feb 24-26 | ||
Novell | Feb 24-26 | |||
Canonical | Feb 22~26 | home | y |
If you need assistance with travel, please fill out a Travel Subsidy form. For more details, follow the GNOME Travel Subsidy process.
Miscellaneous
The Dev8D Conference is happening in London from February 24-27. There should be opportunities to coordinate some time together to work on projects or socialize. Since the Dev8D conference runs a bit longer than the GNOME 3.0 Usability hackfest, some people may have an interest in attending this event on the 27th.
Below are some ideas for collaboration:
- Organize a day when the GNOME Usability Team or community meets at the Dev8D venue to give a talk or session or hang out for or hack. The 27th looks like being a good day to encourage people from the GNOME Usability hackfest to attend the Dev8D conference as it is the day after the GNOME event.
- The GNOME Foundation could provide some compelling speakers, presenters, or discussion topics on GNOME Usability or free software GUI usability in general.
- Dev8D attendees could provide an introduction to HE research specific projects
- OSS Watch will be running a workshop before the events that will provide an opportunity for learning about Wookie, the W3C Widget server that is now in the Apache Incubator. This means there will be people hacking on Wookie and widgets at Dev8D.
- Eye gaze control using cheap web cams is a hot accessibility topic so it would be good to see some joint hacking on GNOME Mouse Trap and University of Cambridge Inference group's opengazer project; http://bit.ly/6iZqbr and http://bit.ly/GL9tJ (thanks to @pepperbox for the idea).
References
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