I've been steadily chipping away at creating a little place here on confluence, and now that I'm pretty much done, I'm proud to announce that the UX Improvement Initiative has officially been launched!

To summarize things:

• The UX Improvement Initiative is going to make Sakai's user experience awesome!

• We'll make improvements through a series of projects that will target Sakai's UX problem spots. Once a project is formed, we'll keep it open until it doesn't need anymore design. (Where's the skeptical raising one eyebrow smiley when I need it?)

• Projects will get two months of design time, and if they need more, we'll give them another two months at some later time.

• The first project that's been selected is: Improving the CLE v1.0. The kick-off for this project is planned for Monday, March 17th. I've scheduled a kick-off meeting on the Sakai001 bridge for 9:30 AM MST.

• I encourage anyone who is interested in participating in this project to contact me so I can add you to the team! I'd like to keep the kick-off meeting to 1 hour and will send an agenda to the team this Friday.

• Also, if this project isn't your cup of tea, but you'd still like to get involved in the initiative, let me know and all I add you to the directory!

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Warm regards,
Nathan

PS: I've done my best to keep the content as brief as possible. But if you're just not up for the read, feel free to drop me a note with any questions you might have.

This project is planned to start on: Monday, March 17, 2008

I've scheduled a kick-off meeting for team members at 9:30 AM MST.

To dial-in, use Sakai001:

IP Address: 156.56.240.9
Telephone: 812-856-7060
Conference Code: 348
PIN: 72524

Not a team member yet? No problem! Drop me a line and let's talk.

For more information on the types of folks this project needs, take a look at the Thinking about getting involved? section of the UX Initiative Summary.

Also, take a look at the Project Profile to learn more about this project. And if you have any questions, just drop me a note.

Cheers,
Nathan