IdeaTorrent

Hey!

Today is new moon, perfect time for a stable release! You can grab it on the download page, gogo brainstorming! And I'd be happy to hear how you are using it.
As usual, you can ask support in the forums (anyone there?), mailing list or IRC chat, at your convenience.

Hello there!

A few more bugfixes and here we are! Still waiting for the Ubuntu Brainstorm update to get more input. Since there is no database scheme change since beta1, you can just overwrite the code of your current installations.
And behold! Soon another big user will announce a Ideatorrent-based website!

Hey!

I'm still waiting for Ubuntu Brainstorm to be updated with the latest 0.9 version of Ideatorrent so that I can spots the last bugs and finalize the 0.9 release.

Meanwhile I was pretty happy to hear feedback on IRC from people installing Ideatorrent and reporting bugs! This release deals with the most common ones : unable to change the project name, bad links on voting arrows when non logged, inability to install both the Qawebsite and Ideatorrent modules at the same time, and a few more.

Finally, I was quite happy to hear Ideatorrent is used internally at the public library of Charlotte, NC, US, and in a very few days, the Stockholm airport website using Ideatorrent should go live.

Cheers, and long live brainstorming!

I'm pleased to announce that finally a beta version of IdeaTorrent is available! Thanks to the sponsorship, I was able to speed up the development a lot, and it's nearing a decent state.
Beta means that a few bugs are to be expected, but that the overall should work. Please download, install with the help of the documentation, test, and report back bugs here.
Edit: Rendering quirks with the standard theme fixed with beta2.

Thanks!

To be more precise, the LFV group, owner of the larger aiports in Sweden, is running in cooperation with two swedish universities, an airline ground handler and one IT consulting firm a project called “Airport Living Lab” (english on the second part). Quoting its mission:

By harnessing the concept of multi-organizational open innovation Stockholm-Arlanda Airport will multiply its pace of innovation by involving all airport stakeholders, such as passengers and personnel, into the innovation process.

And guess what they choose as a base for this open innovation project? :) As such, I am sponsored to work on IdeaTorrent during this month before I start my new job, and two of their developers will join the project at least until October, date of the first public pilot. Concretely, that will mean some interesting new features, such as the rationale/solution separation, a reworked UI, idea filtering at submission, more powerful moderator tools,… that will reach Ubuntu Brainstorm *hopefully* in October or so.
Well, some great stuff that boost your motivation on your open source project!

Hey!

After much hesitation and cursing at domain name squatters, this is settled: the piece of software powering Ubuntu Brainstorm will be called IdeaTorrent! Why so? Besides the fact that it was one of the very few available domain names, there is the secret long term plan to make the IdeaTorrent instances collaborate between themselves, in a P2P fashion. But shhh, that's a secret!

At the moment, IdeaTorrent is designed for and powering Ubuntu Brainstorm only. That means that there are a few things that are specific to Ubuntu. Eventually, it will become project-neutral, and easily-installable tarballs will be available, but some work is required. When will it be available? I hate to promise things I can't keep, but hopefully I'd say at the end of the year.

For now, the website will be pretty basic:

• http://devel.ideatorrent.org contains the automatically up-to-date development version of IdeaTorrent, set up with a snapshot version of the Ubuntu Brainstorm database. That means that you can login with your Ubuntu Brainstorm login and test whatever you want: all will be erased at next the update.
• The forums, for feedback on the development version.

Thanks for reading!