Ubuntu Brainstorm Announced!
The Ubuntu QA community have put together an awesome new resource for Ubuntu users and developers - Ubuntu Brainstorm. This allows you to suggest ideas for improvements, and to vote on the ideas others have suggested.
We have of course been inspired by the IdeaStorm site from our good friends at Dell but modified the concept to fit our needs.
The development team can now take the pulse on the most pressing user issues and propose the ideas as topics at the Ubuntu Development Summits and ultimately as specifications. Ubuntu development is in turn driven by detailed specifications written up in the wiki and tracked as blueprints in Launchpad.
An idea on brainstorm can easily be linked to a Launchpad blueprint as well as to a bug or a forum discussion thread. In this way we expect to bridge the locations where ideas are often submitted now, as forum posts or bug reports, with the blueprint format they should be expressed in to be implemented.
Jonathan:
Scott,
Great idea nice to see it come along. Currently I’m gettting a 404 Page Cannot be displayed when I visit the site. Don’t know if the site is down or it is just a problem with IE7 under Vista.
Thought I would drop a note
Thanks for all the hard work,
Jonathan
28 February 2008, 3:50 pmJarrod:
I just checked it out, and it worked fine for me.
I have to say I really like this idea and I hope it keeps up throughout the newer releases too!
28 February 2008, 4:23 pmDylan McCall:
I see a lot of decent looking ideas voted down without any explanation! I think the voting system has to be mixed more closely with the comments. (Possibly a screen asking for comment after someone votes).
Another issue: If I try to edit an idea, it gives me a screen telling me to input the title… but the title field (at that point blank) is disabled!
The original edit page also has a disabled title field, but that time with the title filled in. It would appear that the disabled field is not submitted. Joy!
Fantastic work so far
28 February 2008, 5:46 pmRichard White:
We’ve built something similar, called UserVoice, that enables any company or community to have a tool like this, but we do a little more to create a market around good ideas rather than just letting everyone vote everything up.
You can check out UserVoice and request your own page (we’re in semi-private beta) at http://example.uservoice.com
1 March 2008, 6:56 am