At the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit

This weekend I am spending at the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit. It is a great event hosted at the Google Campus in Mountain View. Below more info about the sessions I am attending.

Sessions:

Overview of all sessions

Student retention

Notes at http://openetherpad.org/student-retention


Measuring Usability

Criteria for usability:

Notes at http://etherpad.osuosl.org/gsoc2010usability

1.  Abstraction Level
2.  Closeness of mapping
3. Consistency
4. Diffuseness/terseness
5. Eror-Proneness
6. Hard mental operations
7. Hidden dependencies
8. Junxtaposability
9. Premature Commitment
10. Progressive Evaluation
11. Role expressiveness
12. Secondary Notation
13. Viscosity
14. Visibility

How to make a team use agile development, if they have never done it before

Notes at: http://typewith.me/agile

Liberate your data
Notes at: http://typewith.me/liberate-data


Sunday ...

Open Streetmap 
using Cherokee for quick OSM rendering http://code.google.com/p/cherokee/

Advanced Trolling
(This seems to be the most popular session so far ;-)
Notes at: http://etherpad.osuosl.org/advanced-trolling
http://trolluniversity.com/
the CRAPL license http://matt.might.net/articles/crapl/

Open Source Science


Jim Procter and I organized the Open Source Science session:
http://etherpad.osuosl.org/open-source-science