Jeff-

Thanks for bringing this over to gallery-docs. Some comments
are inline.

(To everyone else:  Jeff is a Technical Writing Masters
student  
working on documentation for Gallery for his major project)

On Feb 26, 2007, at 4:22 PM, Jeff Ward wrote:
> 1. Frontloaded Usability
> This work will help me to determine what needs to be
documented.
>
> Install Gallery 2 using existing documentation and note
challenges.
> Use existing documentation on features of Gallery 2 and
note  
> challenges.
> Design a usability test based on the above
information.
> Test four or five people matching your target audience
(or audiences).

This sounds great. We've had some some review of the
interface by  
usability experts but I don't know of any usability tests
performed  
on actual users. This could lead to some very useful
information!

>  2. Documentation list
>
> Send you a recommendation report including a
comprehensive list of  
> what I propose to document.
> Incorporate any changes or suggestions you may make.

Also sounds great.

>  Questions
>
> Who uses Gallery? For the documentation, is the
audience segmented  
> into primary, secondary, and other members, or is there
just one  
> main audience? What are the age groups? What is their
level of  
> technical knowledge? Is there any other information
about audience  
> that may be helpful?

Lots of people  There are
probably a couple of main groups:  
(someone else feel free to jump in on this)

-People that administer their own Gallery installs, are used
to the  
processes involved. You could probably call these the
"expert users"
-People that administer their Gallery and have no idea what
they are  
doing
-People that add pictures/etc to a Gallery that someone else
administers
-People that only browse a Gallery

The most common user is likely someone that administers
their own  
Gallery, is familiar with basic administration tasks, and is
the sole  
user of their Gallery: creating albums and uploading images
to share  
with family and friends.

> If you have any questions or would like any additional
information,  
> please contact me.
> I will send you an update of my progress early next
week.

If you are interested, the rest of the development team
sends weekly  
updates on the gallery-devel mailing list. (You can join
this the  
same way that you joined gallery-docs)  You might be able to
get some  
more feedback there, but primarily it's a good way to keep
the entire  
team informed of what you are up to.  Additionally, we have
a weekly  
meeting every Thursday at 1PM Eastern US time in the
#gallery  
chatroom on irc.freenode.net.  You're more than welcome to
listen in  
or provide status updates if you like.

-Chris

--
Chris Kelly
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http://ckdake.com/

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