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Ubuntu Brainstorm Launched

Posted by kdawson on from the good-ideas-are-where-you-find-them dept.

thorwil writes "Brainstorm is a new site where everyone can submit and vote on ideas for Ubuntu. It's inspired by Dell's Ideastorm. By default, you see the ideas submitted by the community sorted by popularity. Each idea is accompanied by arrows so you can vote it up or down (you have to log in first). You can only click once per idea. So this is an easy way to submit ideas and see what people are really wanting."

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  1. Re:Color by Goaway · · Score: 0, Troll

    Does it threaten your fragile sexuality, or what?

  2. Re:The point being.... by WillDeed · · Score: 0, Troll

    The problem is - so far there has been no place except the forums for non-techies to participate and make their voices heard. I see four main categories of users:

    1. Developers. If they see a problem, they can code a patch if necessary.
    2. Technical users - these can test alpha and beta releases, and help locate bugs etc.
    3. Non-technical but internet-savvy users - if they report an issue, it's often a big, missing feature (like, "I want my webcam to work")
    4. Users that won't comment online in any case.

    There is currently no place for the third category. Dell realized that, and it's really a shame that the FOSS community took this long to realize that there is a need for structured feedback from category three.


    I don't think you're considering how diluted the help from the third category will be... For every accurate and truly missing feature request, you'll get 10 requests for "better myspace support" or get a bug report for some program because "I get a 'Permission Denied' error when I try to run 'make install'".

    Category three users are much more likely to report n00b questions than actual bugs/missing features.
  3. Re:Color by insertwackynamehere · · Score: 0, Troll

    On a color related note, they should have a pink theme. I showed some female co-workers all the different ways you could make Ubuntu look and all of them, without exception, flipped out when they saw pink; doubly so when it was pink and black. Until it's embedded in their washing machines and stoves, women shouldn't be using Linux, much less computers. What's next, letting them vote? And where does it go from there? Maybe they'll actually start hunting instead of just gathering!