OOoCon 2003, March 20-21, 2003, Hamburg

Abstract: This panel will concentrate on usability issues of OpenOffice.org. It will tackle the general conception that open-source software and usable software exclude each other. A team of professional usability experts, together with user interface contributors of the OpenOffice.org community can create an Office product that holds its own in the face of Office suite competition.

Panel: Lutz Höger, Christian Jansen, Matthias Müller-Prove, Nick Richards

Lutz, Christian and myself are members of the StarOffice User Experience team at Sun. Nick is co-lead of the OpenOffice.org marketing project.

Text and Audio

Notes and Transcipt by Elizabeth Matthis and Matthias Müller-Prove

A 50 minutes audio recording is available as mp3 files. Note that the second file uses a lower sample rate to save some bandwidth.

Audio Track - high quality mp3 ^48MB

Audio Track - low quality mp3 ^21MB

à propos

• Professional Usability in Open Source Projects: GNOME, OpenOffice.org, NetBeans. Paper and presentation at CHI 2004
• User Experience for OpenOffice.org by Matthias Müller-Prove in interfaces 71, Summer 2007, British HCI Group
• On-Site Requirements Engineering for OpenOffice.org. OOoCon 2007