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What do we need to get innovative stuff implemented?

1. A great idea
2. The manpower
3. The infrastructure and toolset

(1) is now more or less successfully covered by Ubuntu Brainstorm. Concerning (3), some good infrastructures exists around here, such as Launchpad, and development toolsets are good but not yet optimal IMO (I’ll keep that for later). (2) is much more tricky.

Indeed, often a project start with a single person. But as the project goes on, some needs arise that you can’t alone handle, such as artwork. And we got no central place to ask for help.

Another usecase is a skilled person wanting to participate. At the moment, except some Ubuntu team wiki pages here and here proposing static jobs, there is no central place to look for something to do.

Introducing Ubuntu Wanted

The idea is simple : make a central place where these two categories of people can meet. One could post “jobs” and be contacted by others.

Why not in Launchpad?

That would be its natural place. But, as with Ubuntu Brainstorm, the closed source nature of Launchpad, for now, does not really help.

Why Ubuntu, and not distro-independant?

By experience, I know having the backing of one major distro really help

The project itself

The project is already started. Sense Hofstede(Qense) took the leadership, wrote a spec, a few wiki pages, created a bazaar branch, and started coding. A preview of its work can be seen here.

Now what?

Ironically, this project needs help Nothing particulary difficult, only basic PHP and SQL skills are necessary. To contact Sense, you can either look on #ubuntu-website on IRC, or mail the Ubuntu Website mailing list.