On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 16:58, Randall
Ross
<randall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Here is the start of a new spec: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityLens
We need to begin to use computer mediation to re-connect real
people who really matter to us. I hope we can breathe new life
into this idea and make it happen. Ubuntu's chance to really
differentiate is staring us in the face.
the ideas you write up in the CommunityLens spec are
interesting, an Ubuntu Community implemented in a lens is
definitely something to think about.
OTOH i don't quite see the low-hanging-fruit potential
behind this. The "Ubuntu Community" approach would seem too
nerdy or geeky to an ordinary user IMO, that's why i didn't
consider it yet.
What people want is something like a phonebook-Lense,
Symbian, Android, WebOS etc all have very easy to use and
touch-friendly solutions to this, but our Desktop OS is
lacking such a simple PIM to find a person in my contacts and
share or connect with that person through simple human
gestures. We already have real communities, and we want to
connect with them in an inexpensive and comfortable way.
Personal computers help us solve this problem, since they have
microphones, cameras, HIDs and all sorts of flatrate-enabled
ways to connect to others.
The People Lens was already implemented, i don't know if
the code was too hackish or if the implementation needs to be
adapted to the new Lenses API before it can be included in
main, but what i know is that it was a great step towards
brining non-nerdy human communication and sharing to the
Ubuntu Unity Desktop.