[Design Patterns] 5/14 OSDPL pattern group meeting update & notes

[Allison Bloodworth]

Hi everyone,

Thanks so much to the folks who contributed thoughts on the mailing  
list to the Open Source Design Pattern Library "Questions of the  
Day" (http://wiki.fluidproject.org/x/Howk) and attended the group  
meeting yesterday to further flesh out our goals and think about our  
target audiences. The meeting notes (a big thanks to Colin for taking  
such great notes!) can be found here: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/x/ 
0Ywk. Please feel free to add to or modify them.

Here are a few highlighted outcomes from the meeting:

1) MAILING LISTS: Due to problems sending messages to multiple  
mailing lists, we are going to move all the design pattern discussion  
to the low-traffic fluid-talk mailing list. Please make sure to  
subscribe to the fluid-talk mailing list (see http://fluidproject.org/ 
index.php/mailing-lists) to participate in our discussions--we'd  
really like to encourage your participation in this conversation! I  
will send messages to all the mailing lists announcing important  
events, but will leave the more detailed discussion to fluid-talk.

2) MEETINGS: Due to a conflict for some attendees with the 10am PDT/ 
1pm EDT Wednesday meeting time, the meeting will move to 11am PDT/2pm  
EDT Wednesdays. However, the weekly meeting may not always be a full  
group meeting; it may instead be used for a smaller working group  
meeting. This Wednesday 5/21 11am PDT will in fact be just a small  
working group meeting, as Daphne, Jess, and Allison will be working  
together to develop a short mission statement and list of goals for  
the project based on our discussions thus far. Others who would like  
to work on this are welcome to attend if interested, but it is not  
required. We will have another full group meeting the following week  
at 11am PDT/2pm EDT. We will continue to use the teleconference line  
for talking at our meetings as well as the Fluid Breeze server  
(http://breeze.yorku.ca/fluidwork) for notes and sharing URLs.

3) DESIGN PATTERN LIBRARY DATA ELEMENTS: Allison & Colin have  
inventoried/studied other design pattern libraries' data elements.  
Colin sent his analysis (http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/ 
confluence/display/DESPAT/UI+Design+Pattern+Format) out to fluid-talk  
last Thursday. I've attached my inventory of data elements to the  
main Design Patterns page on the Fluid wiki: http:// 
wiki.fluidproject.org/download/attachments/1706231/ 
PatternLibraryDataElementInventory_ver02.xls (along with another  
report Erin Yu and I worked on about how screenshots and licenses are  
used in various pattern libraries: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/ 
download/attachments/1706231/DPInventory_ver2.doc). The data elements  
at the top in red at the top of the DataElementInventory_ver02.xls  
file seem to be very common; the ones in orange are also popular so  
we may want to consider including them as well. There was an  
interesting discussion about data elements in pattern libraries a  
while back on the ui-pattern-authors Yahoo! group/mailing list which  
begins here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ui-pattern-authors/ 
message/8. (You must sign up to become a member of the group to view  
the messages.)

4) DESIGN PATTERN LIBRARY PROPOSAL WILL REMAIN LIVING DOCUMENT: The  
Design Pattern Library Proposal: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/x/wg8a  
I started writing at the beginning of the project will be a living  
document which we will update as we make decisions about how the  
OSDPL will work. I anticipate that most edits will flow from our work  
on the OSDPL Discussion Questions & Answers (http:// 
wiki.fluidproject.org/x/Howk).

5) OSDPL QUESTIONS OF THE DAY/WEEK (http://wiki.fluidproject.org/x/ 
Howk): I will now send out discussion questions for the group in  
bunches of related questions whenever it makes sense. This means you  
may in some weeks receive just one email with multiple questions.  
Look for this week's questions shortly!

Thanks again to everyone for all the work you are doing to make the  
OSPDL a fantastic resource!

Allison

Allison Bloodworth
Senior User Interaction Designer
Educational Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
(415) 377-8243
abloodworth at berkeley.edu




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