Co-Presenter: Allison Bloodworth, Senior User Interaction Designer, University of California, Berkeley
Two new efforts to build communities of practice across open source projects are underway: The Fluid Project's Mellon-funded user-experience initiative and the online library for teaching and learning, currently a joint effort between Open Source Portfolio, Sakai, and the Association of American Colleges & Universities. Open source projects measure success through the ongoing health of the community that gathers to make them possible. These new collaborations seek to enhance the overall health of multiple community/open source projects by fostering interconnections, expanding participation, and sharing practices and tools.
Join us to learn more about how Fluid is combining resources, thinking and conversations around usability and accessibility to produce a collection of user interface design patterns and pluggable user interface code optimized for open source projects.
fluidproject.org
Join us to learn more about how multiple projects are building an online library to expand the conversation about pedagogy and deliver practices and tools for teaching and learning to new audiences of educators and students.
openedpractices.org
The session will include tours of both collections and end with an open discussion of how other JA-SIG projects might join these efforts to:
- share best practices
- share building blocks and tools
- aggregate information and resources
- provide more accessible information about the real implementation of open/community source tools and practices
- profile institutions engaged in open/community source projects
- profile open/community source contributors
- connect people across open/community source communities
- reach new audiences beyond technical open/community source communities
