Let’s make it personal.
One thing Jono’s talked about in the past is how to make Ubuntu more personal. One of the things that suck about the internet is that we’re all behind monitors and keyboards, and it’s hard to remember that there’s a human being on the other end of the line.
Things like Google Hangouts are helping too, it lets us just talk and be more like we are in real life than typing in an IRC window. We totally suck at not learning from social networks and making it …. MORE FUN:
Wow, how horrible. Ok, well, I guess that guy is boring, but what about as a group?
Well, Launchpad does have a team picture view, but I can never figure out how to use it because LP for some reason makes it so hard to set your avatar that most people don’t bother. Also, I think we’re going about it the wrong way. Too sterile. Now what if I told you you could work with these people:
Wow! That’s a dynamic group of people! I already know a bunch more about those people just by those pages than a list of their PGP keys. And if you didn’t know Graham already, you’d totally want to hang out with that guy.
Now, I’m not saying everyone should go delete their home page on Launchpad and use about.me. Let’s look to see what Mozilla’s doing:
Hey, now that’s more like it. Structured, but fun. I can see the people I work with, and remind myself about how ridiculous that moustache is. It makes it more personal, reminds me that we’re part of a large team. Mozilla makes the code to mozillians available. Maybe what we need to do is to integrate something like that with the LoCo directory.
It gives people a place where they can say “I’ve done this!”. Make it so we can thank people right on their page. +1 them, leave a comment. “Man Nigel, you really saved my buns last cycle by working on summit, you’re legend.”
Oh neat, a person’s amazon wishlist right on there? Awesome, let me buy them something, or flattr them, or whatever.
Anyway, some food for thought for UDS.
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