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From time to time, one of these guys pass by… Always makes me smile
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Oh hai!
Starting now, you can affect a project to an idea in Ubuntu Brainstorm. And since our evil plans to world domination includes to make next Brainstorm websites dedicated to projects (including non-ubuntu, upstream ones) that will share data with the global one, I’d like to make a small poll:

As an upstream developer/maintainer, would a […]

Hey, look what I got from Dell for having asked for Ubuntu PC worldwide on Dell Ideastorm (besides having the idea implemented, and the joy of not paying an OS I won’t use) :

Nice pen! Thanks! That’s apparently a gift sent to the authors of the most popular implemented ideas.
Shall we launch a plushie […]

I just became Ubuntu member! Yay! I will finally be able to bug you all with some Ubuntu Brainstorm stuff

I was thinking the other day about Brainstorm and upstream interaction. The fact is, lots of ideas belongs to upstream projects, so how should we help them to use these ideas?
Adding a new “software” field, and making something like [project_name].brainstorm.ubuntu.com would not require too much effort, but we can’t expect upstream projects to use […]

At the moment, for an average user, it’s pretty hard to install third party software. Why?

The software is not shipped with the distribution package format : E.g. the software is bundled in tar.gz archives with custom command line installation scripts (such as the very new VIA Linux drivers).
When it is shipped with the distribution […]

 … when you are beginning to see that many spontaneous user fanwork! (don’t worry, just invented this word) Here are the latest I encountered:

And a pretty cool promotion website here.

because I believe a summer-of-code-like event is the next logical step after Ubuntu Brainstorm.

because I think a good developer documentation center would help much for new and “foreign”(others OS) developers.

We are now two days before the final release of Ubuntu 8.04, and the candidate CD images are already here and need testing! Help us make sure they are critical-bug-free by following these instructions.

As you may know, we are getting close to the release of the next LTS version of Ubuntu, Hardy Heron 8.04! The release candidate is due thursday, and the final release the next week.
And in these last development days, you can help to polish it! Testers are needed to test the daily images builds, either […]