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Just a quick link to a nice weekly pick of Brainstorm ideas.

Facts:

Brainstorm is full of ideas
There are not enough contributors for all these ideas.
There are lots of potential and interested contributors that does not know how to start (that’s the hardest step, remember when you started!). We can see that for example in this idea.

Question: How to take advantage of Brainstorm popularity and idea pool to […]

Apple claimed the new Gnome Cheese is infringing a Apple patent concerning image editing, acquisition, and viewing. ?!. The author was asked to remove the code within 5 days. !!. Apple, WTF??
http://home.cs.tum.edu/~siegel/news/2008_04_01-bye_bye_cheese
Will this crazy and dumb all-patenting system ever end??
[Edit: of course, there is a chance of an April fools joke. Pretty tasteless if this […]

Wanna install Ubuntu Brainstorm on your computer? Wanna see the code, and maybe contribute back? Great! Here are the instructions!
Don’t forget : if you want to contribute, don’t do it blindly, coordinate with us first!

In my opinion, as a developer, listening once in a while to user input should be almost mandatory. It brings us back to Earth and reconnects us to the expectations of our users. It also gives us a glimpse of how they experience our work, something that as developers, we can’t sense. And that’s gold.
Ok […]

Because everybody like stats (and because it’s not implemented yet!), here are some numbers for you, concerning the week of the launch (28th feb - 5th march):

10796 users
338319 votes cast! (that’s around 31 votes per user)

238043 were +1 votes
100275 were -1 votes

10446 comments posted on ideas!
3145 ideas

326 deleted (spam,…)
578 marked as duplicate (out of […]

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!