[ubuntu-studio-devel] PR & Support: Where to fish for contributors?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 12:21:05 +0100, set wrote:
>I met you Ralf, on the very social public mailing list for Linux Audio
>Users :)

It is not a social network and I'm not an official Ubuntu Studio
contributor :p.

I'm not a member of the church of Linux audio, but I have other reasons
to wish that more people use Linux.

There are sane reasons to use either Ubuntu and/or Arch Linux as I do. A
Windows refugee most likely would be unable to cope with Arch, so I
would recommend Ubuntu Studio.

The reasons might help to find contributors (and to win more users):

- Ubuntu is the most known major distro
- Ubuntu has got a past and a future [1]
- Ubuntu follows the user-friendly approach with all it's pros and
  cons. For Linux beginners just the pros of the user-friendly approach
  counts, so it makes sense to contribute to Ubuntu, to spread Linux.

[1]
Yes, the presence and future of Ubuntu is disputed for reasons that
don't count that much for the averaged computer user, such as e.g. a
Windows refugee. The presence and future that counts for the averaged
computer users is better than that of other distros, with a small user
and maintainer base and even that of other user friendly major
distros, since they have got pitfalls Ubuntu doesn't have.