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Bacon: Community Driven Ubuntu Phone Core Apps
On his blog, Jono Bacon describes the Ubuntu Phone core apps development process while also soliciting volunteers to help on the design side. "So, we have a good set of developers assigned for each app, but we would like to invite our community to contribute design ideas for each of these apps. We have already defined a set of user stories and functional requirements, and for each app we have also defined a set of the core screens and functionality that we will need design for. We would like to invite you wonderful designers out there to contribute your design ideas, and these ideas can provide food for thought for the developers." The "core" apps are things like calendar, clock, calculator, email client, document viewer, social media apps, and so on.
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Bacon: Community Driven Ubuntu Phone Core Apps Posted Jan 25, 2013 16:52 UTC (Fri) by k3ninho (subscriber, #50375) [Link]
Oh. I welcome what Jono is trying to do with this, and wish Canonical the very best of success, but I can't see this being an evolutionary process - there's no Benevolent Dictator to usher projects to the next best idea. Also, the design ideas might find a diamond in the rough, but I expect that it will regress to the mean (or mediocrity) and there won't be enough to show a Ubuntu Phone as better than a comparable Android handset.
I have to restate my view that I don't dislike Canonical or their grand dreams. I'm just not sure that this community process is optimal - best of luck building the developer community who will power the ecosystem!
K3n.
Bacon: Community Driven Ubuntu Phone Core Apps Posted Jan 25, 2013 18:58 UTC (Fri) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402) [Link]
Are app developers by any chance getting fatigue over writing a unit converter app for yet another phone platform?
Bacon: Community Driven Ubuntu Phone Core Apps Posted Jan 26, 2013 18:25 UTC (Sat) by AlexHudson (guest, #41828) [Link]
Note they're not actually soliciting for developers - just designers. Likely they already have some of this functionality already, and they're asking for design ideas.
Whether sticking up a wireframe for $whoever to pick and choose from constitutes "community involvement" I'm not sure - it involves the community I guess, but I don't think they're saying the basic apps will be designed and defined purely by "the community".
Bacon: Community Driven Ubuntu Phone Core Apps Posted Jan 25, 2013 22:54 UTC (Fri) by simosx (subscriber, #24338) [Link]
Whether this works or not will be primarily an issue of community leadership, and enabling people to join the Ubuntu Phone effort.
I believe that many would love to have a phone with a Linux kernel and a UI that is not Android (it's X.Org or Wayland). And many are ripe to be inspired and join an effort like Ubunt Phone.
Bacon: Community Driven Ubuntu Phone Core Apps Posted Jan 26, 2013 14:44 UTC (Sat) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] "I believe that many would love to have a phone with a Linux kernel and a UI that is not Android" Indeed! I just purchased a Nokia N900 from eBay and I love it. It's a complete shame that Nokia abandoned Maemo/Meego/etc. I love running real Linux on my phone and I don't think I could ever settle for anything less. I even ported my Remind tool to my phone... took about 5 minutes because it was just ./configure && make.
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