Project Proposal: GNOME Innovation

[Wolter Hellmund <wolterh6 gmail com>]

Greetings,

I am a new member of the GNOME contributors community.

In the following message, I will suggest the creation of a new project entitled GNOME Innovation in HTML format for easier comprehension.

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GNOME Innovation

Project Proposal

Introduction

The GNOME Innovation project is a proposal for the conditioning of a new environment for the community to organize ideas in a brainstorm-like system. From the behalf of this project, the current method of idea organization used by GNOME is not unified as it should in order for it to achieve optimal performance. The problem with it is that there are many places where the community can submit their ideas that are not interlaced; community members with potential interest might not get to know about these ideas. If GNOME Innovation is created and the community is formerly notified, the submission of ideas and project proposals in a unified environment will overcome the effectiveness of the system used today. The general objective of this project is to bring faster innovation through a better communication to GNOME.

Project Structure

Sub-domain at gnome.org

There are two proposals as to where to host this project:

URL	Characteristics
innovation.gnome.org	It follows implicit gnome standards for sub-domain naming. It is easier to understand for the general pubic.
nova.gnome.org	It is shorter than the previous option, letting no attention be taken away from the word gnome.

However, it is not expected that any of these is applied for sure.

System

The project is intended to use a Brainstorm System, which is already provided by IdeaTorrent. It is already implemented in successful projects such as Ubuntu Brainstorm, SourceForge.net and others. This system is based on problem solution, which makes it pretty similar to the bug reporting system already existent in gnome; a user posts an idea, composed initially of a rationale--which is the description of a what the idea will fix--and posteriorly he submits a solution. Users incorporated in the system will be able to post solutions for the same rationale themselves. Solutions are rated with a thumbs-up thumbs-down system, implementing a democratic way of selecting the best solution.

To prevent the miscarriage of the community, before an idea is able to be voted on and discussed, the Brainstorm Moderation Team will have to approve it. The team will also get notified of popular ideas. If they consider an idea is cost-effective, they will communicate it to the developers for them to start bringing it to life.

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Best regards,
Wolter Hellmund

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