We haven't been able to get anything consistent out of the "UI Team" for some time.
For now, since meetings haven't been productive, I thought I'd organize an informal, everyone is invited UI/UX Summit on Google Hangouts. Things that will happen there are:
discussions of new topics, work being done UI/UX related(javascript, plone.(org|com), mockup, patternslib, mosiac, theme, etc)
demos, quick reactions
grips, concerns
volunteering on tickets, testing
Why?:
UI team has been inconsistent
people have too many meetings. meetings are annoying
Direction(future):
much less meetings, maybe once every 6 or 8 weeks?
planned showcases, presentations. Less like a "meeting", less people staring at each other wondering what we should talk about
find ways to highlight work being done more
ANYONE is invited!
Mark your calendar for May 21st. Specific time will be in a follow up message!
I am very pleased to announce that Brian Ledwell has agreed to take on the role of UI team lead.
Brian was my Plone co-conspirator / agitator at UW Oshkosh beginning in 2004. He is a user-centric thinker, as he has a Fine Arts background and is always interested in training and mentoring users. He received leadership training, so is able to apply Jedi techniques on people; he's good - hold onto your wallets!
As the person responsible for almost 300 centrally hosted sites, he is keen on giving users, power users, and site owners the tools they need to get things done.
Not that there's any pressure on him, but we expect great things from him now!
Looking at the doc, this seems to be focused primarily on Plone 5. Am I reading it correctly?
That would be a great topic in and of itself, but I was wondering about UI/UX directions beyond 5. I have built a little demo with Meteor that I hope might give a glimpse of what's possible with full-stack reactivity. I'd be happy to show it next week or later on.
Yes, I'd only like to focus on Plone 5 right now until we get it shipped. There is still a decent amount of things that need to get tackled before we pass beta.
Once we ship Plone 5, let's start talking about Plone 6.
I'd love to see your meteor stuff. Maybe start a new thread and do your own hangout demo?
I think staying focused on Plone 5 is a good approach. I'm also interested in your Meteor project Fulvio but not for this hangout.
Nathan, just start collecting names and contact info via a sign up form. Have the form suggest the two best windows of time and their timezone and then we can set the best time based on that information.
Also I'm volunteering to summarize the presentation as best as possible for the sake of persons who are unable to make the live presentation and also for persons like me who need to digest new information for a while.
My goal is to get a good understanding of the Plone 5 way and see if some of my conventions that I've developed for Plone 4 are still applicable and what adjustments I'll have to make to get going on Plone 5.
