Brainstorming on the Ubuntu Brainstorm
Tonight I have mainly been browsing the new Ubuntu Brainstorm site. Congratulations to everyone involved in putting the site/service together, it's a great concept and hopefully it'll prove to be a valuable resource for the Ubuntu community.
It'll be interesting to see how the site develops over the coming months. I'm especially interested in how archiving of the ideas will work — how long each idea stays on the front page, and where they go once they've been actioned etc. I think the logistics of a service like this will be key in ensuring it succeeds, for both users and developers.
Regarding actual usage, I've submitted my own idea and found the submission form to be straightforward enough. It would have been good to see a better system for categorising ideas, the single "Category" menu was quite limited and didn't provide for selecting multiple categories. Apart from that, I have no complaints.
Anyhow, I'll finish this post with my idea, remember to vote it up if you think it's a goer!
GUI for easy remastering
As I understand it, many users have multiple systems on which they run Ubuntu. Due to the nature of Ubuntu/Linux and the way in which it is easily customisable, I think it would be a good idea to create a GUI application to easily remaster Ubuntu with user specific customisations.
An easy to use application designed to achieve this would save users, like myself, from having to customise each installation individually. The customisations could be made once, burned to disc and then installed on any number of machines. This would save users a huge amount of time and could also benefit organisations wanting to install their own customised version of Ubuntu.
Note: scripts [such as remastersys] already exist and they will help to achieve this; however, they can be quite buggy and require the user to have a good understanding of the scripting language and the inner workings of Ubuntu. I wouldn't consider them very user friendly.
Update: Just seconds after submitting my idea it was voted down to -1. Hmm, maybe I should have waited until all the Digg/Wired traffic had passed?! Either that, or it's just a terrible idea :|
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