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Idea #7952: Universal brainstorm

Written by ethana2 the 1 May 08 at 21:03. Related project: brainstorm.ubuntu.com. Status: New
Rationale
Canonical maintains launchpad entities for every project in the universe repos if I recall correctly. They should do the same with brainstorm. ..even further than that-- Ubuntu brainstorm should be the place to go to get good ideas heard.

I have ideas for pidgin. I have ideas for google's mail service. I have ideas for gnome-panel. I have ideas for firefox.

I need somewhere to put them. Many people don't seem to understand the importance of organized user input, which is extremely unfortunate. --but anything that directly affects the Ubuntu experience should have its own brainstorm section on this site. Perhaps
apps.brainstorm.ubuntu.com ?
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Written by ethana2 the 1 May 08 at 21:03.
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Eldmannen wrote on the 1 May 08 at 22:58
Luckily Canonical have released the source code for Brainstorm, so other people are able to download it and put up their websites which use the same system.

https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-qa-website-devel/ubuntu-qa-website/trunk

barlennan wrote on the 1 May 08 at 23:00
The applications should come with instructions on how to give feedback in their READMEs, and ideally in their man pages. It doesn't do any good for Ubuntu to add a site where Ubuntu users of application X leave their comments, if the developers of application X don't read the site, and would rather be contacted the way they specified in their READMEs.

ethana2 wrote on the 1 May 08 at 23:22
I seem to see a lot of 'we don't care what you think, we'll code in the features /we/ want'.

That's part of what I want to eliminate. When everyone wants a feature, they need to be able to unify about it without just getting individually blown off.

Plus, I don't have time to hunt down each and every app's feedback method, or wait for all those busy people to put up their own brainstorm server. Also, I don't want to have a separate account for each app's brainstorm. It all needs to be in one place, and I think this is the best place for it.

dinar wrote on the 2 May 08 at 16:15
see also:
make something with brainstorm for part of ubuntu software
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7418/

ethana2 wrote on the 3 May 08 at 21:54
Yeah, something like that--

Now, the pidgin folks have come out and basically said that the way it is now is more or less the way it's supposed to be... And it is true that if we're not paying them we're not entitled to anything- but it should be noted that if brainstorm featured bounty integration we could indeed fund the development of features that we want, in fact.. I'd almost say that if that was done, implementing brainstorm ideas could become a viable business. Imagine a company that operated entirely on browsing brainstorm and adding things people want and claiming bounties.

It's like, proprietary software development, but without the evil.

ethana2 wrote on the 13 Sep 08 at 19:23
My friend has purchased braintempest.com and we're trying to figure out how to get a server up now. I'll start by putting one up on my LAN..


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