I think you guys made some really good points I never thought of earlier.
Although Ubuntu's forums are very large and sometimes overwhelming, they do
a great job of dealing with a great amount of essential troubleshooting
questions. Considering Ubuntu Studio is an official derivative of Ubuntu, I
think asking them to reorganize the multimedia section of their forums to
tailor to us shouldn't be too much to ask for.
-Luis
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Eric Hedekar aftertheb...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Jussi Schultink juss...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Louie Queral louiethecu...@gmail.comwrote:
Honestly, I feel like the addition of an official Ubuntu Studio forum
(preferably separate from the messiness of the ubuntu forums) would be the
most efficient way to encourage involvement. The wiki's are great ways to
display user contributed artwork and such, but in my opinion, it acts as
more of a gallery rather than a station for discussion and further
development.
Forums are quick to set up, free, and easy to maintain. I can see our
forum separated into different categories such as Development, Bugs,
Troubleshooting etc. However, in regards to art, the forum should be divided
into several subforums:
-Logo Design
-Theme/Icon Design
-Website Design/Improvements
Moderators will also stick threads that they feel are becoming popular,
or increasingly productive. This kind of structure will allow artists to not
only upload their work quickly and effectively, but also pass their work
through a medium that offers a community of critics.
Forgive me if I sound intrusive, but I envision the future of Ubuntu
Studio as being a well-respected linux distro focused on multimedia
creation. A distro that offers artists, musicians, animators, and directors
the chance to create their work on an open-source platform that is stable,
efficient, graphically appealing, and simple. We really have a chance here
to continue developing something magnificent, and in order to do so, we need
a more tightly knit community.
I agree forums are all that, but as an officially recognised derivative
of Ubuntu, we need to make use of officially sanctioned areas. this isnt to
say we cannot have our own, but that if possible, we should work with
existing facilities. Second, by utilising the part of Ubuntu forums we have
been given, we gain access to a lot more viewers, and thus a lot more
possible contributors. If a decision is made that we need more room in the
forums, or a different structure, I am well familiar with the members of
the forums council and can do the necessary liason work to make it happen.
If you have time, please join our IRC channel and feel free to have a chat
to us in realtime about it there.
Jussi, I personally greatly agree with your take on forums. Maintaining
our own seems silly at best - we would also need to deal with errors of
general ubuntu, beginners, etc... in our own forum and there are some
excellent users within the Multimedia Production section. I do think that
we could use a different category/organization on ubuntuforums.org as
Multimedia Production has very little branding of our project. In my
mind, the question is: What forum sections should we ask for?
My personal opinion on that question is that Ubuntu Studio should become
a section similar to the Development and Programming section. Within
that, there should be a sections on Audio, Video, Graphic Design, and
Gallery.
It would be great if we could integrate the look of our forum sections with
our website, but I'm not sure how practical that is.
-Eric Hedekar
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