Karoliina Salminen wrote: > Hi, > > >> So you can see how while we would _love_ to work on the issues that are >> repeatedly brought up but... we need help. Simple. If you want to see >> the things in and around Ubuntu Studio you need to get involved. We only >> have so much time. >> > > I have been lurking around for quite as long as Ubuntu studio has > existed and have not figured out how > to be able to contribute on it other than maybe doing contributions to > software involved which I may not > have enough time.
Yes. Thats one way to contribute to Ubuntu/Ubuntu Studio. Work on upstream applications. But you said you have no time. > The biggest obstacle seems currently the fact that > the audio software, particularly > midi-audio sequencers, are not in the level of maturity a musician > needs for doing music without just feeling > the pain of creativity (I struggled and tried for about 5 years and > finally decided to get a Mac as I wanted > to get rid of the xruns in the audio and wanted just a simple thing: > record without recording stopping now and > then for xrun, and play the thing back too with similar results. As a > result, after a long time for doing nothing, I have now produced > even some new music lately and also edited some my videos (which was > impossible on Linux as there is no > high definition video editing software for Linux (kino and diva don't > work because they are DV editors and > not suitable for high def (1920x1080)). No xruns and the video is full > definition, no interlace-errors, etc.). > Yes all things we see also but have no control over. Its like asking Microsoft to fix problems with Premiere. They have no control over it. > So I see, there is plenty of work to do in the Ubuntu Studio and Linux > audio/video area anyway but how much of that > is directly on the Ubuntu Studio itself is a bit unclear to me, and I > would appreciate if you could elaborate a bit more about it. > Work on upstream applications. > So please tell me some concrete thing where you would need help in > Ubuntu studio distribution itself and I might think about it. > Time permitting I would like to help if I am allowed to. My work > laptop and our living room PC are running Ubuntu Studio. > My experience is mainly on area of programming languages (C, C++, > Python) + UI toolkits (Gtk+, Qt, Clutter) + > desktop framework + multithreading & synchronization. > > Best wishes > Karoliina > --- > http://www.karoliinasalminen.com/blog > Best way to get involved is learn packaging. That is the single biggest way to improve things in Ubuntu Studio right now. Bug-fixing. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Contributing ISO testing. https://iso.qa.stgraber.org and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Cases/UbuntuStudioAlternate Next is documentation. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio Next is art. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/Artwork We actually do very little programing though we have a small settings app in development. And I mean small. We should be able to handle it just fine. Ubuntu Studio Controls - https://launchpad.net/ubuntustudio-controls -Cory \m/ -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users