Prague Opera Web Appreciation Society

Vaclav Slovacek will give us an introduction to usability and user-centered design, including a short overview of methods and practices to make applications more user-friendly and popular among users.

Usability techniques are not very well known in Czech Republic, but widely used by major foreign software companies. Having a great architecture and code may be a very good thing, but often not what matters most for the users.

The talk will be in Czech, the slides will be in English.

The meeting will be held in Restaurant Dobrý Den, Čáslavská 5 Monday April 27 at 18:00.

It is easiest to get there from the Flora metro station (line A, "green line"), with tram lines 5, 10, 11, 16 stopping there as well, or the Orionka tram/bus stop, where the tram lines 10 and 16 stop.

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What is happening with CSS? Jonny Axelsson will talk about the state of CSS, CSS3 to be exact, in the W3C, current browser support, and possibilities for efficient Web design. Modules that will be covered include the more recently published ones like Borders and Colors that can be used now, as well as some less talked about ones that might turn out at least as important in the future.

The talk will be in English.

The meeting will be held in Restaurant Dobrý Den, Čáslavská 5 Monday December 15 at 18:00. The restaurant has WiFi.

It is easiest to get there from the Flora metro station (line A, "green line"), with tram lines 5, 10, 11, 16 stopping there as well, or the Orionka tram/bus stop, where the tram lines 10 and 16 stop.

The Summer meeting will be at kafárna Na kus řeči, Bezručovy sady 1 Thursday August 7 at 18:00. This time there will be no program to disturb us from enjoying each other's company, but hopefully good weather and views on the Kafarna lawn.

It is easiest to get there by tram 10 or 16 to Vinohradská vodárna, but metro station Jiřího z Poděbrad and the Krymská stop (trams 4, 22, 23) are also nearby.

Filip Ornstein, a student at ČVUT, is working on a voice-enabled site and is going to talk about his experience with this and partake in a discussion on how voice could fit in with the rest of the Web.

The talk will be in Czech, the slides in English.

The meeting will held at Hostinec Hloupý Honza, Školská 12 Thursday June 5 from 18:00. It is easiest to get there by tram 3, 9, 14 or 24 to Vodičkova, but tram stop Štěpánská (tram 4, 6, 10, 16, 22, 23) and metro stations Karlovo náměstí and Můstek are also nearby.

Recommended reading: Getting to know voice, primer with links
Ramadet (rapidly assembled multi-modal dictionaries, lectures, and tests), Filip's web site