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Like I promissed you, the step-by-step of the GSoC project will be all described in this blog.

So, for now…

As I said in my proposal, the first task of this project, besides studying libs and stuff, would be the appliance of the focus group technique, right?! Ok.

But, first, what is this focus group about? Well, it’s something like a meeting with 8 – 12 people with opinions (very important – they gotta have opinions) about certain matter. There is also moderator that is going to lead this 1-2 hour discussion, and he will make sure that all the points and questions to the matter were covered. Here is wikipedia to help you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_group

In this project, the moderator would be me and the matter would be the Widgets Explorer, of course.

But how to get it done? Well, the traditional technique says it must be a traditional meeting, with people in the same room. But since this matter involves a international community – and so it would be hard to get together at the same room –  how about turning this room into an irc channel at freenode? That would be much better, huh?

Ok, so here is the real deal: 

Me and Rob Scheepmaker (a.k.a. pinda), another student at GSoC with the Network Transparecy in Plasma project , are going to organize a focus group at #plasma-focusgroup, on friday, at 1 PM, UTC timing.  Me and pinda are  together on this since we are both dealing with applets.

*Just to get your attention

There are going to be 12 people (hopefully) discussing the applets subject and me and pinda are going to be the moderators of this focus group session. 

Don’t worry, we’ll be following a script so that the discussion won’t get lost. We are also going to try to make things not messy, with the help of the participants

Please, if you are willing to help and want your opinion on the discussion about the applets and widgets explorer, send me an e-mail (anaceciliamb@gmail.com) with your name, relationship with the community (designer | developer | user), and registered nickname at freenode – then I can put you on the invitation-list of the #plasma-focusgroup channel. 

We’ll try to gather 3-4 designers, 3-4 developers and 3-4 purely users.

The list has already begun:

1. ivan_cukic (my mentor!)
2. aseigo
3. nookie

Please, if you want to help, email me!

Thanks you all!