Hi there Chris<br>, I am an ubuntu user, have launchpad account and sub to the cloud already. Have put my name as a guinea pig and will help if i can<br>Bob Allen<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 May 2011 01:46, Chris Wilson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:afrowildo@gmail.com">afrowildo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi there,<div><br><p style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:21px;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.5em;margin-left:0px">
<span>I’ve just started the project for my MSc course in Applied Computing and am in need of some guinea pigs to help design and test it. I’m going to be working on it between now and Monday 12th September, when my thesis is to be submitted, and I’m going to be using the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-centered_design" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">user-centred design</a> methodology and will be looking for people to provide feedback regularly between now and the submission deadline.</span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:21px;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.5em;margin-left:0px"><span></span>The project will be to implement a ’Continuous Client’, where the move from one computing device to another is streamlined by saving your session on one computer, syncing it to a location in the cloud, and restoring it on another. Reader of Engadget will probably be <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/a-modest-proposal-the-continuous-client/" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">familiar with this concept</a>. I’m planning on building an open source version of this that will allow the user to use Ubuntu One sync their session from one Ubuntu computer to another, with Windows machines eventually being added to the mix. It’s not going to cover every single application in the Software Centre, but it will support a few of the default apps shipped with Ubuntu. In the beginning, this will include LibreOffice writer, Firefox and Empathy, with the option to expand to other LibreOffice apps if time permits.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:21px;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.5em;margin-left:0px"><span>I would really appreciate people’s participation in this project, and anyone that wants to get involved can read the <a href="http://continuousclientproject.org/testers" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">FAQ for testers</a>, as well as the <a href="https://launchpad.net/continuousclientproject" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">project</a> and <a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Ecctesters" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">team</a> pages on Launchpad. The mailing list on the team page will be the primary communication channel for the project so participants should sign up to that.</span></p>
If anyone has any questions regarding this, I’ll be happy to field them.<br><font color="#888888">Chris</font></div>
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