# Usability testing workshop - FOSDEM 2020

**URL:** <https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/usability-testing-workshop-fosdem-2020/1341>\
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**Created:** [November 13, 2019, 5:23am UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/usability-testing-workshop-fosdem-2020/1341 "2019-11-13T05:23:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![belenbarrospena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@belenbarrospena](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/belenbarrospena)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 5:23am UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/usability-testing-workshop-fosdem-2020/1341/1 "2019-11-13T05:23:53Z")

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The people who went to ApacheCon knows that we organised a half-day workshop on how to plan, run and analyse usability studies the day after the conference. We had only 6 attendees (5 plus someone who joined at the last minute), but the feedback (I think) was positive.

So I decided we are ready to repeat the experiment at FOSDEM. Hackerspace Brussels offers space to FOSS projects the week before FOSDEM, so I contacted them and asked whether they would host the workshop on Friday 31st January, the day before FOSDEM starts. And they said yes! 🙂

We already have a page for the event in the Hackerspace Brussels website

[https://hsbxl.be/events/byteweek/2020/opensourcedesign/](https://hsbxl.be/events/byteweek/2020/opensourcedesign/)

We have a registration form in place (we will be taking a maximum of 20 attendees):

> **[How to plan, run and analyse usability studies](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfCMcgZq9cG-scnVvkb7_6Z1eL1SszkPIratsdQuF0ikioDWw/viewform)**
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> Date: 31st January 2020 (the day before FOSDEM)
> Time: 12:00 to 17:00
> Address: Hackerspace Brussels - Rue du la petit isle 1, 1070 Anderlecht, Brussels, Belgium
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> A free, hands-on workshop for FOSS contributors where you will learn how to plan, run and...

And I have sent a request to list the workshop as part of the FOSDEM fringe.

If anybody would like to help on the day, please let me know. @ei8fdb and myself (and hopefully @victoria-bondarchuk) will be there, but some additional support would come handy 🙂

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**Author:** ![belenbarrospena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@belenbarrospena](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/belenbarrospena)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2019, 10:33am UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/usability-testing-workshop-fosdem-2020/1341/2 "2019-11-26T10:33:19Z")

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Our usability testing workshop is now listed as part of the FOSDEM Fringe \0/

[https://fosdem.org/2020/fringe/](https://fosdem.org/2020/fringe/)

If you know anybody who may be interested in attending, please point them to the registration form:

> **[How to plan, run and analyse usability studies](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfCMcgZq9cG-scnVvkb7_6Z1eL1SszkPIratsdQuF0ikioDWw/viewform)**
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> Date: 31st January 2020 (the day before FOSDEM)
> Time: 12:00 to 17:00
> Address: Hackerspace Brussels - Rue du la petit isle 1, 1070 Anderlecht, Brussels, Belgium
> 
> A free, hands-on workshop for FOSS contributors where you will learn how to plan, run and...

Thanks!!

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**Author:** ![Erioldoesdesign](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/erioldoesdesign/32/2895_2.png) [@Erioldoesdesign](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/Erioldoesdesign)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2019, 3:11am UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/usability-testing-workshop-fosdem-2020/1341/3 "2019-11-28T03:11:07Z")

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Awesome! Loving seeing this available for OSS projects 😃

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**Author:** ![belenbarrospena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@belenbarrospena](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/belenbarrospena)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2020, 8:20am UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/usability-testing-workshop-fosdem-2020/1341/4 "2020-01-18T08:20:23Z")

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A quick update on the workhop: we have 16 registrations at the moment, although I am not sure everybody will turn up. Still: 16 is pretty good, and I’ve stopped advertising it because I think it’s a nice, managable number of attendees as is 🙂

@ei8fdb and myself will be running the thing, but we would welcome some help. If you are in Brussels from Friday morning and want to give a hand, please reply to this thread.

The workshop happens on January 31st from 12:00 to 17:00 in Hackerspace Brussels. On how to get there, see [https://hsbxl.be/contact/](https://hsbxl.be/contact/)