Brilliant Brainstorms is a weekly-ish summary of some of the best brainstorms from the Ubuntu Brainstorm site. In the beginning it may not always come exactly once a week or on the same day, but, if it becomes popular, it should become more regular.
Sometimes it seems like the Ubuntu Brainstorm people read my post (yeah right, they have better things to do). Last week I said this:
First, I have been eagerly watching the Brainstorm Blog, but there have really not been any new posts in a long time. I hope this changes soon.
As you can guess, there is a new post this week. The new post basically introduces some new features for Brainstorm. One of the features is making developers’ comments on ideas more visible. I am very glad they did this, since I was hoping this would happen for a while. (Although I was expecting it to happen through the blog.)
Flash drive unmounting is a strange issue. No one bothers to do it, and it never seems to matter. Still, it is an important issue, since data loss is possible. Since it seems that no operating system has made it easy to deal with unmounting, Ubuntu should be the first.
What is the use of ideas if other people can’t volunteer to work on those ideas?
Although I do kind of like the generic bootloader, I do think that Ubuntu should theme it at least in a small way. Perhaps just an Ubuntu logo?
Last week I talked about an idea to redo Ubuntu’s homepage. Looking at this mockup, it looks like the ideas are already there, it just needs to be implemented.
Some ideas are great, but not that important. For example, this one. Just kidding!
It is great to be able to vote ideas down, but what if you want to know how many votes up or down an idea got, not just the total points?
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May 10th, 2008 at 9:56 am
once again a great article. These ideas are very vaild.
May 10th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Hey,
Yes I do read your Brainstorm post every week, and I like your weekly pick of nice Brainstorm ideas! Unfortunately ideas implementation just can’t happen as fast as you select them
Ubuntu Brainstorm is a tool to assess the best ideas/the most wanted features out there. Consequently, we need as much input as possible, so one of our goal is to keep the website alive, and to attract people. That’s why we recently added the “latest comments” section, for easier discussion tracking, the bookmarks, for easier idea tracking, and the more visible developers comments, which will provide the main part of the feedback on your ideas. Feedback directly on the blog will be discussed during the Ubuntu Developer Summit next week.
As you pointed out, another goal of Brainstorm is to make people meet around an idea and make them help to make it a reality. That’s something we are working on: soon brainstormers will be able to contact themselves, and we are thinking on the best way for brainstormers to volunteer for an idea.
Finally, we are brainstorming on a crazy idea, a decentralized Brainstorm.
That’s it for some feedback!
Keep going with this nice weekly post!
nand, Ubuntu Brainstorm developer