* Raena Armitage - Champagne usability on a beer budget
* Tyson Clugg - Wireless routing protocols and daemons using OpenWRT
Please come socialise from 6:30pm for a 7:00pm sharp start.
Join us after the meeting for dinner at Maria’s Trattoria, 122-124 Peel St, North Melbourne.
Raena Jackson Armitage: Champagne usability on a beer budget
If you’re developing an application without actually testing it with everyday users, you’re selling yourself short. Usability testing doesn’t have to be onerous or expensive, and any indie developer can do great testing with minimal resources and great open tools.
We’ll talk about:
* Testing early, testing often — why early and ongoing attention to usability
is so important, and doesn’t take up as much time as you might think.
* What to test for and how to get the most useful results. Conducting tests
doesn’t need a bajillion-dollar testing lab, hidden cameras, or white coats.
* Nifty open source tools your project can use right now — capture user
interaction, and share it with your developers.
* Make usability a part of the culture of your project. Become a usability
champ!
Raena is a web developer and usability wonk. She’s good with beer budgets.
Tyson Clugg: Wireless routing protocols and daemons using OpenWRT
A comparison of routing protocols and daemons for public mesh networking using OpenWRT, with a focus on small memory footprint, low CPU usage and low bandwidth requirements. Aspects of router administration and basic network security will also be covered.
Tyson Clugg is the current President of Melbourne Wireless, and has been a Linux user since installing Red Hat Linux 5.0 to perform firewall duties on his home network back in 1998.
Today the Melbourne Wireless network covers Melbourne to such extents as Hampton Park, Kilsyth, Kangaroo Ground, and even Geelong! It has the longest operational WiFi link in Australia of 100.51 kilometres, and over 100 operational nodes on the network.
Tyson being the bragger he is likes to call the Melbourne Wireless network his own home network, and proclaim to the world that he’s responsible for the lot. A group of Melbourne Wireless members have been spotted marching the streets calling for the United States to step in and end the dictatorship…
Further Information: http://luv.asn.au/
