[maemo-community] Brainstorm: useful?

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:11, Dave Neary <dneary at maemo.org> wrote:
> Andrew Flegg wrote:
>> Isn't an engaged
>> and QUALIFIED minority better than a vocal, superficial, unqualified
>> public?
>
> Better for what?

Good point. I suppose it's when we use Brainstorm as a community
decision making tool, rather than feeding into "future Maemo plans",
that I think an expert working group is better than direct democracy:

    http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/developers_should_get_karma_based_on_the_relevance_of_their_software/
    http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/routing_visitors_to_useful_resources/
    http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/command_line_applications_and_extras/

> Actually, has anyone explicitly stated the goals of these sites? I mean,
> why do we have them?

Good question :-)

> My initial understanding of Brainstorm was "a site where people could
> propose new features for Maemo, and have a reasonable expectation that
> those ideas will be included in future Maemo plans".

Indeed; which is perhaps why I'm having trouble seeing its use for
community questions which can be answered by consensus rather than
having solutions gladiatorially fighting each other to the death.

[big snip of interesting/useful stuff]

Cheers,

Andrew

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