A new website has launched called Ubuntu Brainstorm and it looks to be the seedling of a site that has a lot of great potential for driving the direction of the Ubuntu Linux operating system. At the moment, it looks like the website is gaining a lot of participants at a very fast rate. This is a good thing in the long run, but for the time being, it can cause the popularity between newer and older topics to appear disproportionate. That’ll iron itself out in the long run as well.
The way Ubuntu Brainstorm works is simple: You can join in by submitting your own ideas about what you think should change or be slightly modified about the current Ubuntu operating system, and then other people can vote for or against your submitted ideas. It works much like Digg does as a social bookmarking website, where users submit multitudes of different things, and the popularity contest begins.
Some good suggestions have already been made, and it is clear that one of the strongest drives held by many of the participants is to find ways to make the OS increasing simpler for new users. One of the most recent suggestions I liked was to get rid of that dreaded GRUB menu and replace it with something more pleasant looking, and less intimidating. There are many other suggestions present on the site. And best of all, you don’t have to be a developer or know a thing about computer programming to make an impressionable suggestion.
So if you’re an Ubuntu user, check this site out and join in helping to make Ubuntu the best OS in the world: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/
Here’s the dumb idea I just submitted: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/338/