New front page, new smarter algorithm, new roles for moderator and Ubuntu developers, new categories,… Lots of new stuff! I believe all this will greatly help to give more attention to new ideas. Check out the new Brainstorm! Here’s the Fridge announce.
Meanwhile we have discovered a few bugs that should be quickly fixed tomorrow.
Expect a big batch of updates on Brainstorm tomorrow!
Right, here are new stats:
2000 ideas (which a good proportion of interesting ideas, and around 100 concerning the website itself)
7800 users
So basically, we are overwhelmed At first we planned to first use the most voted ordering as frontage for a few weeks, and then, when the number of ideas would have began to be […]
Here is a great idea I wanted for some time!
You can easily use such images too! On an idea page, go to the “Help promote it!” link!
Whooaaah! OMG! Whoah!
Ok, here are the stats at T+20 hours:
1000 ideas, with almost 1000 votes for the top ones !!
3200 new users, with currently 50 new users every 13 mn!!
1 slashdottage
1 front page diggage
1 front page wired article
And on the overall, a pretty good content quality!
Honestly, I’ll tell ya: We met a bet before launching […]
Hey, Ubuntu brainstorm has been launched!
Ubuntu users can now submit their ideas and suggestions for Ubuntu, and vote for them. This will greatly boost Ubuntu’s ability to assess the user base expectations, and act accordingly. Two months before the next Ubuntu Developer Conference, I think this is a great time to start gathering […]
I’m forwarding a great piece of news today: the Gnome Foundation, with the sponsorship of Mozilla, Google, Novell and Canonical, will fund 50000$ of bounties to enhance Gnome accessibility.
More specifically, there will be a list of tasks held at the program’s home, and tasks will be divided into small 2-weeks tasks and long 6-months tasks. […]
We got an interesting discussion a few days ago at work : how can we motivate a programmer to work harder?
A salesman get a commission for each sale, and a good salesman can double or triple its base salary. That, gives motivation. But how can we do that with a programmer?
A bonus per feature added? […]
A month ago I ordered one of the new Ubuntu Dell on the Dell France website : the Inspiron 6400. The base price was around 450 euros, and I took almost all the upgrades, for a final price of around 750 euros. The specs are : a Intel dual proc, 2Gb of RAM, 160Gb HD, […]
As mentioned before, I recently “discovered” the Ubuntu art team, and all the talents and potential inside. It’s a wonderful place where creativity is unleashed, and new really nice theme ideas are coming up every day on their wiki and ML, on the road to a new default theme.
Unfortunately it seems this potential is far […]