Brilliant Brainstorms is a weekly summary of some of the best/most interesting brainstorms from the Ubuntu Brainstorm site.

This idea gathered a lot of debate around it. Some agreed that a new/updated website was needed, while others argued that adding Flash and similar content to the page just makes it take longer to load. To me, the issue is not about adding Flash or video or anything. The issue is about creating a home page that instantly tells people what Ubuntu is, why they might want to use it, where to get it, and where to learn more. Hopefully this issue will get some attention, now that Canonical is opening up their site.

Without developers seeing Ubuntu Brainstorm, there is little point to it. Right now, developers can respond to ideas and those responses are sometimes featured on the blog, but it would make sense to me to have a section dedicated to the ideas that developers like. This would help pull out the ideas that are both good and implementable. These ideas could then be refined and implemented.

Standard media centers are getting out dated. Why should it be that the only thing you can do with a remote is play your downloaded media and use some streaming services? How about browsing the internet? Writing down some notes or a list? Or anything you would do with a computer? Instead of just integrating a standard media center type application into Ubuntu, how about letting you do everything you already do with your PC, just with a remote. This, of course, includes playing media, but it also includes much more.

As you know, I am a big fan of the Brainstorm process. Because the theme is one of the first things you see and arguably the most important new “feature,” it would make a lot of sense to put the theme decision out to a Brainstorm system. This way, the theme could be chosen by popular choice.

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