Hi there,
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 16:58, Randall Ross <randall@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto: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.
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