The birth and the development of the ePrep Community of pratice (ePrep CoP) has been inspired and supported by the PALETTE project. The ePrep CoP has been officially launched in Sousse (Tunisia) on October 30, 2006.
A first cooperation, involving ePrep CoP members and PALETTE researchers, on the theme “Which tools for which projects ?“ was developed from February 2007 to June 2007, according to the Participatory Design Methodology (Design-for-use phase).
The PALETTE forum for the ePrep CoP was the tool chosen to conduct this phase and its about 60 posts are an interesting trace of what happened in terms of Design-for-use.
The last topic, posted by Christine Vanoirbeek - PALETTE scientific coordinator -, on June 13, 2007, was the starting point of a new phase, the Design-in-use phase, which took place just after the elaboration of the PALETTE scenario for the ePrep (June 14, 2007).