As has by now been announced more-or-less left, right, center, top, bottom and everywhere else in the universe, Ubuntu Brainstorm went live today.

The idea behind Brainstorm is pretty simple and yet immensely powerful. It offers a place for Ubuntu users to post their ideas about how Ubuntu can be improved: new features, tweaks… just about anything can be listed on Brainstorm as a means of suggesting what you think can be improved about Ubuntu. Moreover, other users can vote for (or against) the ideas that have been posted.

The upshot is that the Ubuntu community, QA team and development teams have an excellent source of ideas for things-that-need-work. Obviously there have been Launchpad bug list to go off before now but the thing about bug lists is that the majority of the things on them are bugs; the feature ideas, if any, have been hard to find as a result.

Henrik Omma, who, I think, was the first to announce Brainstorm (being that it's his baby), demonstrated it to the Launchpad Bugs team when we were sprinting in London a few weeks back. It looked cool then, it looks cooler now with live data on it and already having seen a decent flow of users. I'm sure it's going to rock.

If you're a digg user you can digg the announcement of Brainstorm here.