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- Fluid Wiki: collaborative documentation, technical architecture information, and user experience material for the Fluid Project.
- Fluid Blog: learn more about the progress of Fluid directly from members of our community.
- Mailing Lists: join our community; ask questions, learn about the project, and get involved.
- Issue Tracking: report bugs to the Fluid team.
- Source Code: download Fluid's source code
Fluid is hiring!
We are hiring a Web User Interface Developer. Expertise includes JavaScript, Web standards, CSS, and HTML. If you want to be part of an agile team contributing to the usability and accessibility of open source software, please drop us a line.
We are hiring a Web User Interface Developer. Expertise includes JavaScript, Web standards, CSS, and HTML. If you want to be part of an agile team contributing to the usability and accessibility of open source software, please drop us a line.
About Fluid
The Fluid Project is an international community of academic institutions, community source software projects and corporations working together to address the precarious values of usability, accessibility, internationalization, quality assurance and security within academic software projects.
Fluid combines both design and technology to create a living library of sharable user interface components that can be reused across community source projects. These components are built specifically to support flexibility and customization while maintaining a high standard of design quality. The Fluid framework will enable designers and developers to build user interfaces that can more readily accommodate the diverse personal and institutional needs found within community source projects.
Fluid will encourage user-centered design practices within community source software. To this end, we are creating a designer's toolkit that will offer useful design, accessibility, and usability strategies and documentation. Members of the Fluid team are available to provide usability and accessibility support within the Sakai, uPortal, Kuali Student, and Moodle communities.
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The Fluid Project is an ambitious but critically important project to boost the user experience in academic community source projects and other web applications. It is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Facilitate more rapid and effective development of both tools and user interfaces within community source projects
- Improve the user interface of the applications
- Help address the diverse needs represented within education, including needs related to ability, language, culture, discipline and institutional conventions
Project Goals
Our goal is to help improve the user experience of community and open source web applications. The Fluid project will create:
- An architectural framework and the development tools to support modular, flexible and transformable user interfaces within community and open source projects,
- Community processes to support the implementation of this architecture within several target community source projects, including Sakai, uPortal, and Kuali Student
- Interaction design resources including usability reviews, heuristic analyses, design models, and UI design patterns within these projects as well as the Moodle CMS
- Tools and processes to design, develop and test modular, sharable UI components
- Mechanisms to share and iteratively refine UI components within community source and other open source software projects