Idea #7443: Ubuntu Chip In (think Google summer of code)

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Written by Raval the 23 Apr 08 at 05:11. Category: Brainstorm.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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Many post request new or improved features for programs that are available for use with Ubuntu. Ubuntu should organize programmers within the community who are willing to volunteer their time to help projects develop or improve features the Ubuntu community is asking for.

Think of it as our (modified) version of Google Summer of Code. As an example, say the community is asking for a web cam feature in Pidgin Ubuntu can ask for volunteers to help get the feature implemented then move on to the next third party feature request or bug fix.

Basically its Ubuntu saying to the community “hey, Ubuntu would benefit if this third party program had this bug fixed or new feature added. Please help by donating your programming skills or a few bucks”

A community mentoring program would also be great that created more programmers to assist in the future.

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nand (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 23 Apr 08 at 08:07

I like this one!

schmappel wrote on the 23 Apr 08 at 15:08

Me too!

madjr wrote on the 2 Jun 08 at 18:38

very nice, getting directly involved with upstream and getting all this people together to better organize, work and cooperate with each other and ubuntu.

mgunes (Ubuntu Developer) wrote on the 27 Jun 08 at 02:26

Unless it strikes a sweet spot regarding upstream relations (which would mean involving the right people, and assume that they're interested), this would just reinforce the existing Ubuntu-centric thinking among users that we already suffer from. It also assumes that there's a considerable workforce in the Ubuntu community which is sitting idle not doing upstream work, and just waiting for this kind of thing to come to being in order to do Ubuntu-centric work.

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