Short Introduction
Hello everyone, here is a short introduction of myself, as I will not be able to contribute regularly through IRC or the "usual" channels.
I live in Switzerland and work at the moment mostly in commercials (parish.ch, if you're interested). I use twiki in my home for project management.
I used to be a tech-savvy person, but have abandoned all that for the sake of (my) art.
I am the typical representative of a VSBO (Very Small Business Owner). I'm all about the following:
- Very small, no time for complicated setups
- No budget, ie I depend on the contributors' goodwill (even for outrageous feature demands I have)
- I don't want to know anything about PERL, Shmerl, Shmunix, ShSL, Shmapache, etc etc if i don't absolutely need to
- I WANT to be tech-dumb. Apple's philosophy about user-experience I can relate to on a deeply emotional level.
- Security? What's that? Do I need it? You're welcome to read ALL my movie scripts!
What I'd like to contribute
I have put my own name into the
UserExperienceTaskTeam for possible contributions from my side on the following topics:
- My TOTALLY ego-centric views as a VSBO
- I have forced a bunch of NON-TECH people to use TheOldTwiki, and many of them have wept at my shoulders
- I would like to start a kind of Handbook for Not-So-Dummies. Ie. VSBOs transition from wiki users to site application developers
I would also like to take part in the following discussions about solutions to the problems of the
TheOldTwiki
- Features should be ROCK stable to be seriously used (eg. WYSiWYG)
- The project site was a nuclear mess, terribly slow and totally obfuscated
- Communication Project-User was unclear
- I smelled tendencies that people were trying to re-invent the wheel. Tie in existing applications, if they're better. Kill your own babys if you have to.
Any comments are highly appreciated.