Ros-general May 2006

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ReactOS case study
by Roman Hoegg 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

Hello everybody! My name is Roman Högg (RomanH) and I have occasionally posted to this mailing list and the web site forum in the past for a variety of reasons. (offering/asking for help, submitting the Swiss German keyboard layout, etc.) I now contact you for something completely different. Together with the Helsinki School of Economics, Luleå University of Technology, Nokia and IBM Business Services, our institute ( http://www.mcm.unisg.ch ) is conducting a study called "Collabora-tion4Innovation (C4I)". The study is funded by the European Commission and is examining the im-pact of diversity within teams on factors such as innovation, creativity and productivity. By diversity we mean things like cultural diversity, different skills, different educational backgrounds, etc. In the first phase of the project we are currently conducting a number of case studies from a variety of areas. The goal is to find the "state of the art" and later define areas in which further research is needed (e.g. organisational aspects such as process design, improving collaboration technologies, etc.) Since ReactOS is - as far as I can see - developed by a pretty diverse set of people (developers from different countries, probably with different skills and non-developers/users/testers that try to improve the software in whatever way they can) I wanted to ask whether it would be possible to conduct a "Reac-tOS Case Study". I think it would be nice to not only have companies in the case studies. If you agree to this idea, I would like to conduct interviews with 2-3 persons of you (in English or German, most likely via phone). Each interview would last between 45 minutes and 1,5h maximum. (or I could send the questionnaire/interview guide in advance and we would only discuss the more open questions over the phone). After the interviews I would condense everything into a 3-4 page description of the project and the aspect of diversity. You would then get that text and could tell me whether you agree with it or whether I would have to change things. Nothing will be published without your consent! Unfortunately I can't offer you any money for the collaboration, but I think the study will give the project some additional promotion and, if you want to, you may of course use my text for documenta-tion purposes. Please let me know what you think and thank you very much!!! kind regards Roman ------------------------------------------ Roman Högg Research Assistant =mcm institute for Media and Communications Management University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Blumenbergplatz 9, 9000 St. Gallen Phone +41 (0)71 224 34 39 Mobile +41 (0)79 418 59 13 e-mail roman.hoegg(a)unisg.ch http://www.mcm.unisg.ch http://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/Personen/Roman_Hoegg

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UI Update
by Aleksey Bragin 25 May '06

25 May '06

Hello, after some talk with our UI Coordinator, I would like to make the following announcements: 1. Icon designers (and other artists too) are officially welcome to the UI team now. 2. All work regarding icon creation will be strictly guided by UI coordinator. 3. Icon development takes place in trunk. However, since this process takes time, Tango (or some other consistent icon set) will be used in releases until reactos own icon theme is not mature. "How do I become an icon-designer in ReactOS" questions go to mf, he's forming a team of icon-designers right now. Any objections against the above? Ged - everything allright with you too? With the best regards, Aleksey Bragin.

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RE: [ros-diffs] [mflyer] 21918: Sorry Ged, but that's not the Rea ctOS logo.
by mf 19 May '06

19 May '06

> The ReactOS logo is an ugly design. Until you manage to get that wonky off-balance thing you prefer to be accepted as the official logo, whether it is ugly or not is not relevant. There is a procedure for changing established things. Your method of just going ahead and changing things without asking is not only rude but wrong. If you want to change things, you will have to go through me first. If you have a problem with me, you have a problem with changing things. So I suggest you consider your options. > Also, it's far too complex to be used as a start button image and looks out of place. It's a bloody orb with wisps (rings) around it. Complex my eye. > The official Windows logo isn't used on the start button. A neater version is used in the same way. A "neater version". You mean the shadow? I have employed a similar way to make the icon clear at 16x16: http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/4972/startthingie3yn.png As you can see, both with Windows and with ReactOS, it's practically the same thing. I'm beginning to get the idea you are making arguments up for the sake of having arguments in your offence. > This logo is the original ReactOS start menu logo and should be kept IMO. It's as much a placeholder as the "original" Everaldo icons were. mf

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ros-diffs mailing list broken
by Aleksey Bragin 09 May '06

09 May '06

Hello, FYI: ros-diffs ML is currently broken, I will fix it hopefully by tonight. WBR, Aleksey Bragin.

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SVN is down
by Magnus Olsen 04 May '06

04 May '06

Hi SVN is tempary down. I do not know which time it will be up again. I hope it will solv soon, I have mail fireball to infrom him about it Bestreagds Magnus Olsen ReactOS Devloper

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Ros-general May 2006