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Hey Liz,

thank you very much for taking a time, proposing and covering this 
agenda. It looks very good and I am happy that we got two slots for UX 
discussions.

I agree with Thierry that we should definitely cover as much UX areas as 
possible. Therefore I would like to encourage people from all fields of 
expertize who have interest in User Experience (no matter if it is user 
research, GUI, CLI, API, ...) to join our session so that we can group 
people together and search for the best way of how to cooperate and 
contribute to OpenStack.

Few inline comments follow:

On 2014/23/04 20:12, Liz Blanchard wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I’m happy to say that there will be two slots (back to back) on the cross-project track for us to have discussions around User Experience during Summit \o/. I’d like to propose we talk about the following, but am completely open to suggestions from whoever is interested in attending these sessions. Let me know if anyone has any thoughts here!
>
> 1) Introduction of everyone in the session.
> 	-What role do you have today?
> 	-How does UX affect you?
> 	-How will you (if you plan to) contribute to OpenStack UX?
> 	-How active do you plan to be for the Juno development cycle?

+1. I hope that more people from various areas will join the session and 
we can find groups of people who are working in similar areas and 
connect them together.


> 2) Discussion of where are are currently in UX.
> 	-What components have we worked on so far?
> 	-What does our current process look like?
> 	-What tools do we use?
> 	-What has worked well?
> 	-What could be improved?

It would be great to figure out what are the groups of people and hear 
from each group what they did so far and what are their goals.

> 3) Discussion on where we want to go for Juno.
> 	-How should we improve our process and tooling during the Juno release? How do we track this and who will take certain action items?
> 	-What tools should we remove/add? (Jarda sent a nice e-mail proposal around yesterday that would be great to discuss further)
> 	-What are our goals for UX during the Juno release? (More research/requirements work? More designing? More user testing?...) Which components will we focus on? (Horizon? Tuskar? Heat? Ceilometer?….) Which features will we focus on?

I think the most important goal for this session would be to connect 
people together and establish a bridge between us, so that we can 
communicate, meet and discuss all together in an easy way. Thread about 
tools and processes helped (thanks all for your feedback), I am going to 
expand on it and I would like to share a summary and follow up on open 
questions at this session.

Regarding goals for Juno cycle - I would envision us to discuss more 
global goals for the whole UX community (which from my perspective means 
mostly gluing people together and finding a way of how to cooperate).

For finer goals (like what to focus on in GUI, in CLI, ...), I think it 
should be discussed in smaller groups (which don't have to overlap, so 
that people can be present in multiple groups). Therefore I think this 
kind of planning might happen:
A) Later on during the Summit (maybe second block?), discussing each 
area separately.
B) After the Summit through channels which we establish.


> 4) UX as a program.
> 	-What does it mean to be a program?
> 	-Would UX make sense to be a program? If so, how should we work together to make this something we could propose as a team?

+1 it would be nice to follow up on this topic. I hope we will build on 
top of previous discussions about UX becoming a program:
* Wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/UX/ProgramProposal
* Email thread: 
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-November/019884.html

Thanks, I am looking forward to meeting all of you
-- Jarda