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I have lately playing with QRCode, and fallen into my mind one thing. How cool could it be if we are using free code for reading QR codes with our integrated webcam – not just for scanning rebates/coupons/tickets with webcam online – else identifying, (log in to FAS) events handling (reading them with mobile to put your reminder), or anything else as enclosed to in standard QR code. I have looked through the net, and it seems that not only me is who has thoughts like that.

Take a look that pages [1], [2]. There is currently no such program module, or applet what connects webcams of mobile computers (netbooks eg.). But it seems that there are hope.

But mainly after I saw Mairín’s the redesign of our Fedora pages, then I could tell it would be cool to integrate next to the dates of our events, meetings – so if somebody wants could pick up with their phone the events, or more. Btw, I could feel that not just with that could be more organised, or synchronised…. Or simply an click to an file what inserts the event to our calendars, or thunderbird – would be nice I think… or even combined: Behind the QR code picture the user per click could download the dates, details what automatically inserts to the event handler…

[1] http://wensheng.com/camscan.php – Probe for scanning

[2] http://blog.wensheng.com/2009/10/poc-online-barcode-qrcode-scan-with.html – Blog about it

We’re promoting us as an wide open community, but currently I feel that we didn’t left so widely open the doors. Partially. What I really miss it, is an place, an website where our members could drop in problems, ideas, and to brainstorm out in open form what’s up next in relation of each question, or else. As I said, partially. You know why?

Because currently when we have problems, questions, ideas around Fedora – it’s mainly goes through the mailing list only, where NOT everybody is reading. Also – yeah, our infra team, and engineer team, and the other teams has it’s own tools, wiki sites, voting procedures, but I feel that’s far away that an open source community could achieve. In first round we said that we need marketing, and merchandising. I say, I think it’s time to have PR, and brainstorming sessions too targeting us, and feed(s)back our community or vice-versa. I mean pull inside into under one page all of our inputs, ideas, problems, questions – and manage it under one common site. Not just only in mailing list, or just an post here on Planet. Also I feel that permission rights (levels) for every question, (voting, and brainstorming, etc.) about the related question (suggestion or whatever discussions are) could be managed through one system. Implementing this will be not so easy, but not impossible, I think.

I have checked out how the others are doing this. Dell has an IdeaStorm site where they accepting ideas, problems, from everybody who registers on their site. They have an very good voting system, answering the questions, suggestions, and everybody could have an comment too. When an thing came in and Dell wants the community help, they are calling together an Storm Session, where everybody could put in about that theme their ideas. Else the site, just aggregates the ideas – and the development & leaders, maintainers implementing, answering, making feedbacks as they could, or need. I think similar system could be used not only packages suggestions, problem discussions, our releases, else to much-much more – and we could reach more widely our community.

But similar system has the Ubuntu community, but they are using that only for limited types of discussions: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/

What do you think, guys? Could we create an such community site?