Thanks Mike!
From: ui-best-practices-working-group-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ui-best-practices-working-group-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Milinkovich
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007
2:47 PM
To: 'eclipse.org-board'
Cc:
ui-best-practices-working-group@xxxxxxxxxxx; 'Bjorn Freeman-Benson'
Subject:
[ui-best-practices-working-group] UI Best Practices Working Group
Board
Members,
I
would like to remind everyone that over a year ago we formed a UI
Best Practices Working Group, and that each Strategic Developer was asked to
make a good faith effort to find someone to participate. That said, all Eclipse
working groups are open to all members.
The
group got off to a bit of a slow start, but there is now some great momentum
observable in the meeting minutes and in some of the documents being produced.
Here is just a sampling of some recent documents contained on the group wiki
that already look very helpful and useful:
·
Draft Eclipse 3.x UI Best
Practices (the Top Ten
section seems immediately useful, but the working page is
better reading.)
·
UI
Graphics Style Design (very cool)
Comments
and calls to action:
1.
Thanks to everyone participating
in the working group. Progress is clearly being made, and I hope that the goal
of having a strong new version of the guidelines can be attained in time to
impact the Ganymede release in a positive way.
2.
A reminder to all of the Board
members to recognize the efforts of your organization’s representatives
on the working group. They’re doing good and important work here.
3.
A further reminder to Board
members (especially Strategic Developers) that if your organization is not
involved that their participation would be welcomed. We have a chance to make
concrete progress on a community topic that has been highlighted as an issue
for quite some time now. (Namely, UI cohesion across multiple Eclipse
projects.)
Thanks.
Mike Milinkovich
Executive Director
Eclipse Foundation, Inc.
Office: +1.613.224.9461 x228
Mobile:
+1.613.220.3223
mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx
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