The idea here is that the Ubuntu project should provide nice and polished theme packs not only with new releases. Just like Google changes its google.com appearance (which attracts a lot of attention) on different occasions, Ubuntu should publish themes so that users could refresh their desktop more often than once in six months using a quaility-driven official solution.
This should include:
a wallpaper
a colour scheme
an icon set
a screensaver
a sound notification scheme
a login screen
a printable poster (for example, a calender for this month)
Say, once in a month.

I think it would be good if the Ubuntu team made videos to show how to do stuff on ubuntu. From the basics of "Connecting to the Internet" to "Organizing your music"

What do you think?

One thing that makes Ubuntu (and Linux) stand out is the use of online repositories for software. This keeps from having too much "bloat" on the CD.

However, the repositories can also be a pain for people with a slow or non-existent internet connection. Here's my idea:
There needs to be a more human friendly way to download needed packages through a website. Here's how it should work. A user logs into the site (maybe repo.Ubuntu.com) and selects their version. The next step brings up a list of packages available in the repositories (searchable of course). The user selects the packages that they need to download. The site then takes the various packages and packages them in either a .deb, .zip, or a tar.gz file. The user can then save these to a flash drive or burn it to a disk.

This would work for those who also need to download updates and don't want to wait hours on a slow connection to get incremental updates for packages.

Idea;

To provide an option to send your Case Study by using a web form.
Could automatically database the submissions, and release as published articles, after they have been checked.
Advantage of reducing the amount of work to process the story between reception and publication.

With a more effective way to handle the case studies, it might be possible to expand the types of users from whom case studies are being sought.
Maybe case studies from GrandParents, Children, people in remote countries, small businesses, governments, mobile equipment, manufacturers.
Choose from a drop down list or fill in "other".

(note: still keep the email method for those that want it)

Description of current Situation ;

The case studies area is at ;
http://www.ubuntu.com/products/casestudies

It lists the contents that should be supplied with a case study story, which is to be "emailed" to Ubuntu.

Receiving these stories by email, means that this will involve manual handling processes of cut and paste for text, and the pictures that are also requested.

This takes time and is laborious for the people that have to do it (at both send and receive ends).

There are not many case studies.

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