I still haven't been able to establish a technical mentor for my SoU project. I need a Drupal developer with a fair amount of Drupal karma and a small interest in usability, for this project to be successful. I'll be plain; *I'm directly asking Dries, core developers, and other similarly-respected folk in the Drupal community, for someone who can commit about 3 hours per week for three months.* This is a sizable contribution to Drupal and will result in considerable usability improvements. Please see details on CivicActions blog for details. http://www.civicactions.com/blog/drupal_mentor_needed_for_season_of_usabilit... Thanks, Bevan/ On 12/5/07, Bevan Rudge <bevan@lucion.co.nz> wrote:

I posted this recently on Planet Drupal via the CivicActions blog but have not had any responses yet.

In summary, I need a drupal developer to help me out for a few hours per week in keeping a usability project on target. There is a small stipend from the programme.

I've included an excerpt below, see http://www.civicactions.com/blog/drupal_mentor_needed_for_season_of_usabilit... for details and links.

Regards, Bevan Rudge/

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I'm proud to announce that I'm participating in the Season of Usability programme. SoU is similar to Google's Summer of Code, but is sponsored by Open Usability and has a focus on usability, not code, in Free/Libre/Open-Source Software. The goal of my SoU project is to improve the usability of drupal.

As part of the programme I need a technical mentor (a drupal developer) and a usability mentor (usability expert). Mentors help to maintain the direction of the project. Zoey and Ron, information architects at CivicActions, have offered to be the usability mentors. Now I'm seeking a technical mentor. The technical mentor will help to ensure that the results and deliverables will be valuable to the drupal community and integrated into the Drupal project.

Ideally the technical mentor would be someone with a high level of respect within the Drupal community.

The long term goal of this project is not just to improve usability in drupal 6 or 7, but to help build sustainable momentum in the drupal developer community that allows the community to keep drupal usable.

http://www.civicactions.com/blog/drupal_mentor_needed_for_season_of_usabilit...

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