So Frustrating

[Cory K.]

Chris Dawson wrote:
> Rolo,
>
> I think you are dead on correct in your criticism of the current state
> of UbuntuStudio and your thoughts point to issues with the Linux and
> Open-Source communities at large.
>   

The latter part of this is actually the more correct point.

> However, this is an incredible opportunity to create a new type of
> community because of this exact issue.  One of the things that Ubuntu
> (and Canonical the company that "owns" Ubuntu) has done that is unlike
> any other Linux community in history is to expand the user community
> outside of traditional Linux users.  This is the first Linux community
> in history where I would estimate the majority of new users are not
> users coming from another Linux community but are coming from outside,
> most likely Windows or even sometimes Macintosh OSX.  This is a world
> changing community.
>
> This community is going to be different because of the sharing that
> occurs.  I would not say that, for example, the Windows development
> community is good at "sharing."  Windows developers hide their
> solutions (so they can get paid for consulting) whereas Linux
> developers offer their solutions to the world at large for free
> (price) and freely (licensing).
>
> This is the same opportunity we have with Ubuntu Studio.  We as a
> community have to find the ways to share information about this
> project.  I'm using it particularly as I learn piano, and so I use
> JackD via QJack, Rosegarden, Qsynth.  But, I've never shared how I use
> it.  I'll commit to doing this.
>
> A friend of mine made a great little multimedia capture program called
> "Screen-cast-o-matic."  It is purely browser based, you just go to the
> site and click a button to do screen captures with Java software in
> the browser.  Would anyone on this list be interested in documenting
> their processes using something like this?  I'll commit to using this
> to document one or two of my processes; first step for me would be to
> organize and figure out which two processes are interesting and
> helpful.  One problem I see with his software immediately is that SCOM
> cannot capture using a java applet running inside of Firefox as the
> sound card will be blocked by the Jackd process and Firefox cannot
> connect to jackd.  I've been trying to find a solution to this for a
> long while.  Perhaps there is another screen capture program, or would
> people care if these were video only?  I suppose it does not make a
> lot of sense that audio creation demonstrations are without audio...
>
> Any thoughts?  Could we create a user generated site full of
> UbuntuStudio audio application usage?
>   

We have a place. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio

-Cory \m/