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Hey, nice catchy title, isn’t it?

To be more precise, the LFV group, owner of the larger aiports in Sweden, is running in cooperation with two swedish universities, an airline ground handler and one IT consulting firm a project called “Airport Living Lab” (english on the second part). Quoting its mission:

By harnessing the concept of multi-organizational open innovation Stockholm-Arlanda Airport will multiply its pace of innovation by involving all airport stakeholders, such as passengers and personnel, into the innovation process.

And guess what they choose as a base for this open innovation project? As such, I am sponsored to work on the Ubuntu Brainstorm engine during this month before I start my new job, and two of their developers will join the project at least until October, date of the first public pilot. Concretely, that will mean some interesting new features, such as the rationale/solution separation, a reworked UI, idea filtering at submission, more powerful moderator tools,… that will reach Ubuntu Brainstorm *hopefully* in October or so. A developer snapshot is available here.

I also take this opportunity to introduce you IdeaTorrent, the name of the Ubuntu Brainstorm engine that was chosen after much cursing at TLD squatters! Thanks to this sponsoring, a release-neutral version is to be hopefully expected before the end of the year.

Well, some great stuff that boost your motivation on your open source project!