Drupal Mentor Wanted for Season of Usability

I'm proud to announce that I'm participating in the Season of Usability programme. SoU is similar to Google's Summer of Code, but is sponsored by Open Usability and has a focus on usability, not code, in Free/Libre/Open-Source Software. The goal of my SoU project is to improve the usability of drupal. As part of the programme I need a technical mentor (a drupal developer) and a usability mentor (usability expert). Mentors help to maintain the direction of the project. Zoey and Ron, information architects at CivicActions, have offered to be the usability mentors. Now I'm seeking a technical mentor. The technical mentor will help to ensure that the results and deliverables will be valuable to the drupal community and integrated into the Drupal project. Ideally the technical mentor would be someone with a high level of respect within the Drupal community. The long term goal of this project is not just to improve usability in drupal 6 or 7, but to help build sustainable momentum in the drupal developer community that allows the community to keep drupal usable. The short term goal of the project will be determined together with the technical mentor. Possibilities include an analysis of the user interfaces in core admin pages and creating wireframes for several pages that need a thorough makeover. Another option is to research, select and design wireframes for UI patterns that can be applied to a range of use-cases in drupal to solve common and problematic usability issues in core and contrib. The programme will require a few hours per week from each of the mentors for three months starting in January 2008. Please contact me if you're interested. Thanks to Open Usability for providing this opportunity, and to CivicActions for co-sponsoring this. Regards, Bevan Rudge/