Ah excellent, so you might be help with the administration/moderation of the Backstage Idea store then ;)
I think you hit the nail on the head. Launchpad, Trac, Bugzilla, etc are bug tracking tools and don't lend themselves well to ideas and abstracts. Get satisfaction is cool but once again we're using cloud software for something I believe we could do on our infrastructure. Plus it mixes bugs with ideas. So Brainstorm made sense. The amount of emails I get from people asking for certain data sets so they can do this or that is enough to warrant this. Plus I think having these out in the open, means you can rally around a idea which means when I go speak to the guy from the Digital 2012 Olympics about a possible idea. I can clear state the idea and who's interested. Its also a chance for BBC employees to also throw up ideas and see if they stick with the community. Maybe iplayer on Windows Mobile gets poopoo'ed by the iplayer team but I throw the idea up and thousands of windows mobile users vote it up and leave comments about what it would mean for them. Basically the power is in your hands, now go add ideas :) Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [x] private; [] ask first; [] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC Backstage Room 1044, BBC Manchester BH, Oxford Road, M60 1SJ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: +44 (0)2080083965 mob: +44 (0)7711913293 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Pope Sent: 28 October 2008 12:02 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Backstage ideas store 2008/10/28 Mr I Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > So idea torrent is brainstorm or brainstorm is the ubuntu name for the > same thing. I've not setup the filters yet. > The Ubuntu Brainstorm website came about a little over six months ago. It was some code sat on top of drupal cms. Not much of drupal itself was used, mainly just the authentication and rendering bit. People called for the brainstorm code to be opened up so others could setup these ideastorm type sites. So yes, it looks like you're sharing the same/similar code base as Ubuntu brainstorm. I've been helping moderate the site since near the start, and we have found it a surprisingly popular way of gathering ideas from people. Whilst we already have infrastructure for submitting bugs (http://launchpad.net/), brainstorm users a real easy way to express what they'd like to see changed/improved/removed from Ubuntu. Cheers, Al. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
