Let me preface this announcement with a disclaimer: This is not really targeted at the developers of UbuntuStudio, but rather the users; an identical announcement has been sent to that mailing list already, I just thought the devs might want to know about or even help out with this project. This is a one-time announcement to this list, for further discussion, please go to: <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=814808">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=814808</a> Okay, so recently Prismatic7 (on <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org">ubuntuforums.org</a>) pointed out that the Community Documentation of UbuntuStudio <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio</a> is getting a little out of date in some spots (like manually entering the realtime permissions), and is completely absent in other spots (there's a link to music notation, but the page doesn't even exist - there ARE multiple notation programs in UbuntuStuio). SO, to fix this, the whole community needs to chip in. If the work load is spread evenly around then it will take no time at all to document the features of UbuntuStudio. After all, this is the most popular multimedia-specific linux distribution EVER!!! (or at least according to distrowatch) In fact, when I put it in those terms, that community documentation truly seems sad and decrepit. Thus, I HEREBY DECLARE JUNE TO BE DOCUMENTATION MONTH FOR THE UBUNTU STUDIO COMMUNITY!!!!! I, with the lack of authority vested in me, challenge every member of the community to step up and pitch in. Edit that documentation to be a shining example of user-friendly help. Even the newbiest of newbs can help by simply pointing out what they'd like to see, or even starting to write it themselves (it's a wiki, so others can correct any mistakes you make). Here are some ideas to kick start you: -take a look through what's there already, fill gaps and fix errors -list some helpful hints on ladspa plugins -explain video... ...anything! (the current video page is empty!) -talk about firewire and ffado (it's in beta testing stages) -explain workarounds for audacity/pulseaudio issues -walk a beginner through a recording setup -walk a beginner through a soft synth setup -explain vst installation Try to edit a page every three days (or more!!) for the month of June. Beginners can do a page a week. No actual commitment of time is enforceable, but set yourself a goal and try to help. We can use this thread (<a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=814808">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=814808</a>) for discussion of more ideas, requests for pages, and other such general discussion. I would suggest that we keep specific discussions on page-related topic to those page's respective "talk pages" but I couldn't seem to see any such pages (did I miss them?) so I guess that's kosher for this thread too, though that could get messy (we'll cross that bridge when we get there). So I say unto you: Go forth and document!! -- _______________________________________ <a href="http://greyrockstudio.blogspot.com">http://greyrockstudio.blogspot.com</a>