"A repository of innovative ideas" - A Ubuntu sub-project

Mon Sep 19 05:04:13 CDT 2005

Hi Sridhar.....your idea is great! I'm very new to Ubuntu...or even to
the Linux world, I've been trained in Microsoft for many years
now.....doing application development to the company I'm employed right
now. I think to baseline everything and before even jumping to something
new....it would be great to create and develop applications that are
similar to what Microsoft have, especially something that's packaged in
Ubuntu. Like for example Microsoft's Visual Studio, an IDE for
application development. Currently, I don't see that in Ubuntu.....I
have to look for it from Debian or any other source that makes it hard
for me to gain confidence whether these IDE's will really be good for
Ubuntu.

If there are existing application development tools that can be used by
Ubuntu (be it through java, c++, or c# programming languages), then
there's a need to explicitly mention them. We need to document it
somewhere in Ubuntu how and where to locate those free applications. 

We can even build or design applications better than Microsoft's....but
first, it would be great to have a counterpart...then innovate. What do
you think Sridhar?

Regards,

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[mailto:ubuntu-devel-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Sridhar
Ratna
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 4:53 PM
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Subject: "A repository of innovative ideas" - A Ubuntu sub-project

This article discusses about the trouble with open source - centered
around "lack of innovation"

http://www.bcs.org/BCS/Products/publishing/itnow/OnlineArchive/sep05/itn
owextra/memberview.htm

It's all about "brainstorming for ideas". Few OSS hackers seem to be
doing this. Once they get the "killer" idea (one which is not obvious
for others), anyone can start working on that. A few such OSS projects
include - python (based on lisp, but really an innovation, IMO),
dashboard, ? ...

Many sw companies, have 'research' team within it. I believe OSS
programmers can to do this research (or call it brainstorming for
provocative ideas) themselves. I learned this only by working for a
commercial company. It would definitely help me in my open source work.

At this stage I would like to start a sub-community work inside Ubuntu,
the whole purpose of which includes

  1. Brainstorm for innovative ideas (Arrive at the problem now, not the
solution)
  2. Think all provocative possibilities centered around products

The development team (which include all OSS hackers), can then take any
of those innovative ideas and starting working on that (they can do some
real cool work as they will be solving touch problems). Writing a GUI Cd
recording app is not really so cool than writing something that's *new*.

-- 
Sridhar Ratna - http://www.livejournal.com/users/nearfar/ 

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