Ubuntu Brainstorm was only launched a few days ago and the first of the ideas have been acted upon. Although we may not see many changes to Ubuntu itself until Hardy Heron or Intrepid Ibex, the Brainstorm team is already at work implementing some of the ideas that have been suggested for Brainstorm itself. Based on a number of Brainstorm suggestions, the Brainstorm site now offers a view of the most popular in a day/week/month as well as a view of random ideas and the ability to look at only ideas in a particular category. These changes are significant for two reasons.

First, these changes are the first visible result of Brainstorm. Although, as I said, we may not see changes to Ubuntu itself until a future release, it is good to see that at least Brainstorm is being updated to reflect proposed ideas.

Second, the changes made are really very helpful towards bringing new, innovative ideas to the attention of more people. Prior to these changes I only voted on a few ideas and many of the ideas I saw did not seem innovative, meaning they were either an idea taken from another operating system or they were just a bug fix. Now I find myself voting on many ideas and finding that there are really a lot of ideas that really are innovative. In my view, while seeing what bugs are really annoying users is important too, the real point of a site like this is to promote truly innovative features that can give Ubuntu a serious edge over the competition. These recent changes will certainly help with that.

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