[Foundation-l] Wikimedia IdeaTorrent?

[Ray Saintonge]

Platonides wrote:
> Erik Moeller wrote:
>   
>> If you haven't seen it yet, Ubuntu is running an interesting
>> brainstorming software called IdeaTorrent to think collectively about
>> common problems and solutions:
>>
>> http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/
>>
>> The software:
>>
>> http://www.ideatorrent.org/
>>
>> I wonder - would people consider it useful to set up something like
>> brainstorm.wikimedia.org using this software, or would it be too
>> duplicative of BugZilla and listservs? The benefit of IdeaTorrent is
>> that it's very straightforward for non-technical users to contribute
>> ideas and solutions. And, of course, it could be used for
>> non-technical problems as well.
>>     
> Seems like bugzilla, but with a separated "solutions" section, where
> proposed solutions can get votes.
> I don't think it should be added, but moving bugzilla to brainstorm
> could be considered.
>   

It's worth the experiment.  Bugzilla seems more related to technical 
issues and questions, in which I presume it does a good job.  We need 
better processes to arrive at solutions to social and governance problems.

Ec