Request For Comments: blueprint around Ideastorm idea

[Martin Man]

Hi,

I think

http://www.pledgebank.com/

does something like this in the real life

what do you think,
Martin

Nicolas Deschildre wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have been drafting a blueprint around Dell's Ideastorm idea.
> Considering that the current means to get user wishes feedback is not
> really good (see discussion in the blueprint) and considering
> Ideastorm success for Dell, i was thinking of using this idea to
> assess the user wishes.
> 
> Right now, when a **normal** user want to post a wish about ubuntu,
> where does he go? (I emphasize the fact that I'm talking about normal
> users, not power users.)
> He goes to forums, where its posts is quickly lost in the mass. Or
> *if he know about it*, he goes to the bug report system(bug! Not obvious!)
> to post a wish. But this wish report hardly represent the size of the
> wish.
> Is only one person interested by this wish, or thousands? or more?
> 
> Consequently there is no real means to assess *quantitatively* and
> *effectively* the users wishes and needs.
> Thus the main guidelines of ubuntu development does not optimally
> match the users demand.
> 
> Considering this, my blueprint try to propose a solution based on
> Ideastorm idea, and reusing Launchpad framework.
> Here it is :
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/launchpad/+spec/better-community-wishes-assessment
> 
> I would really appreciate any comments on this, and you are welcome to
> do some modifications you think appropriate. Especially I'd like to
> hear from Launchpad guys about the feasibility, implementation of the
> spec.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Nicolas Deschildre
>