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Welcome to the wiki of the OpenOffice.org Renaissance Project.

Our Mission

“Create a User Interface so that OpenOffice.org becomes the users' choice not only out of need, but also out of desire”

Project Charter

• The problem statement - What are the challenges of the current User Interface?
• The mission statement - What is our mission?
• The goal statement - What we plan to achieve.
• The scope - What is the focus of this project?
• The roadmap - How do we plan to proceed?

Project Phases

• Research - Know and understand OpenOffice.org users to better meet their needs.
• Design - Generate and accumulate design ideas to create prototypes based on valid data.
• Evaluate - Evaluate promising solutions.

Current Project Action Items

Phase item / Description	Owner	Status	Results	Outcome	Complete	Due Date
IsoMetrics-L survey	AB	in progress			75%	End of Febraury 2009
ODF document analysis with ODFTOOLKIT	AB	Stalled	First java hack		10%
OpenOffice.org User Survey 2009: Focus on tasks	FL	in progress	Survey Draft (German)		85%	End of January 2009 (on risk)
Usage tracking (3.1 release)	AB/CJ	in progress			85%	same as OOo 3.1 release
User Interviews	AB	new				Mid of April 2009
Competitive Analysis	FL	in progress			20%	Mid of March 2009
Community feedback		in progress	unsorted Feedback on mailing list ui@ux.openoffice.org
Customer feedback	open
Focus groups	open
RFE's	open
Site visits, user and customer satisfaction	open
User observations	open
Preference survey	Mike & Jaron		raw data	Summary of Mike	75%	End of February

General Information

• The Team - The People Behind Project Renaissance
• Presentations - Presentations
• Status Meetings - Renaissance Status Meetings
• Press Coverage - Project Renaissance Press Coverage
• User Experience Books - Valuable literature on User Experience topics
• User Experience Sites - Valuable links to User Experience sites

FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

• Frequently Asked Questions - Answers on Frequently Asked Questions

How You Can Help

Get Involved

• Join the UX project! Just have a look at How To Join.
• Come chat at #ux.openoffice.org on irc.freenode.net.
• Join the weekly status meetings. The meeting takes place on IRC at #ux.openoffice.org on irc.freenode.net. The meeting is scheduled for 4pm CET.

Share Ideas

Join our project mailing list ui@ux.openoffice.org

Fix bugs

• Actual Requests For Enhancements or Bugs with the keyword Usability.