Brainstorm: Brainstorms, category maemo.org

Developers should get karma based on the relevance of their software

quim.gil@nokia.com (Quim Gil) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:35:31 +0000

Currently the developers receive karma basically based in how many Garage projects are maintaining or involved with. This is actually a not very relevant statistic: one developer might have only one project making happy to 100.000 users (see Mplayer) while other might have opened 14 garage projects for 14 command-line direct ports of Debian that actually nobody uses or could care less about.

This is not easy to address as there are many possibilities to be unfair e.g. several developers in a project with different degree of involvement, apps downloaded by thousands that are "easy" ports of projects developed hardly by someone else. I wouldn't make big fuzz of this karma for developers, but it would be good to take it into account somehow.

Currently it's easier to get plenty of karma blogging about apps, talking about apps and commenting bugs in apps... but at the end are the dvelopers who carry with a lot of the hard work. Let's praise them!

Discussion thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=31519

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Watching brainstorm

g+770@cobb.uk.net (Graham Cobb) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:59:59 +0000

In order to make Brainstorm more effective there should be a good way to watch/track what is going on without having to come back to check the pages for changes.

I would like to be able to see what new ideas/problems are being posted, what suggestions and comments are being posted for the ideas I am interested in and how ideas are changing state.

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Proposed Talk forum improvements for 2010

texrat@ovi.com (Randall Arnold) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:02:42 +0000

There's been a great deal of discussion at talk.maemo.org about the discussion forum needing a redesign and/or usability improvements. This is your opportunity to provide guidance (no guarantee at this point though that a resource will be available-- this is just to propose ideas to start).

Feel free to add your Solution(s) for a preferred discussion layout. Detailed outlines, flow diagrams and the like will be especially helpful in an endeavor like this, so try to represent your suggested layout(s) visually and link to your Solution(s).

Thanks!

discuss here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=428487

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Brainstorm should be a karma source

maemo@csipa.in.rs (Attila Csipa) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:44:15 +0000

Brainstorm, as a gathering place for ideas and solutions, could be an excellent source for community karma. List your scoring proposals below. How much would you give for an idea ? And for a solution ? Thumbs up ? Thumbs down ?

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Open source software distributed via store.ovi.com

quim.gil@nokia.com (Quim Gil) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:04:37 +0000

The Ovi Store has no problems in the publication and distribution of open source software per se. But in order to be approved as Ovi publisher you need to meet certain legal requirements usually not met by individual free software developers or even more complex projects handled by volunteers. In practice this means that open source applications don't have a simple way to reach end users via Ovi.

This might be a missed opportunity for open source software to get the acknowledge of average Nokia customers and to compete side by side with non-free / commercial alternatives.

Discussion: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=385610

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Brainstorm discussion split between Brainstorm and Talk

quim.gil@nokia.com (Quim Gil) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:21:00 +0000

The Brainstorm has own comments so people can discuss the proposals and ideas presented. In practice through the fruitful and lengthy discussions tend to happen in talk.maemo.org since it's a place designed just for that. The result is confusing: double discussions not always connected and some frustration at the end.

Having different logins for Brainstorm (stock maemo.org login) and Talk (formet InternetTabletTalk) doesn't help.

4 solutions for this brainstorm.

Increase opportunities for contribution

newmans@sonic.net (Sarah Newman) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:54:51 +0000

Approaching the maemo.org community website as someone who is not very familiar with the wiki structure, I'm having a difficult time finding information quickly and some of how the website is laid out does not make sense to me. When I clicked on Report bugs & suggest features why did I not find a link to here? Isn't this how to suggest features?

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Routing visitors to useful resources

texrat@ovi.com (Randall Arnold) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:23:41 +0000

A recurring theme in Talk that won't go away is quickly getting visitors, particularly newcomers, to resources they require. Too often the questions are misplaced and interrupt the regular flow. This is especially frustrating when the same questions recur at high frequency.

I believe we need to look at not only the conventional ideas but also the unconventional.

Talk link: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=32835

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Multilanguage feed of Maemo Planet blog

antoniodicello@gmail.com (Antonio Di Cello) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:19:55 +0000

Create an aggregation of multi-language feed Maemo Planet to aggregate also contained not only in English. Since many users posting entirely in English but in mother language to make life easier for local users maemo

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Command line applications and Extras

vdv100@gmail.com (Valério Valério) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:54:09 +0000

One of the topics of the last community meeting about Extras QA was if command line applications (CLI) should be available for regular users through the application manager or not. We can't reach a consensus, and it seems to generate very contradictory opinions inside our community.

We're talking about apps that doesn't have a UI nor place a icon in the desktop, nor are simple enables that display a message during/after installation.

Please note that this is not about ban some applications, is about the way of get some specific applications.

Here is the initial discussion: http://n2.nabble.com/Command-line-apps-Extras-td4068091.html#a4068091

Discussion at Talk: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=419337

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