So Frustrating

[Chris Dawson]

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.

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?

Chris

On Nov 25, 2007 1:00 PM, RoLo <rolodoom at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, been working with Ubuntu Studio, and have some question for you.
>
> 1. Can somebody explain in simple words how do you do your musical
> process overflow on Ubuntu studio??
> 2. Can somebody explain me what is jack and how to use it. I use some
> programs, cause I dream about a day where I can produce all my music
> with Open Source, but to be honest It's been so hard because of the
> documentation. I still join everything with cubase 'cause is faster for
> me and don't really understand how to connect programs on Linux using
> jack, so I export everything to wav and mix it up on Cubase, yeah I'm
> not proud of it but I haven't been able to use JAMin, so....
> 3. Do you know any guide for Audio on Linux for newbies? For a standard
> Windows/Mac user is FRUSTRATING not to found a nice guide on
> ubuntustudio site. Don't wan't to be annoying but ¿How exactly do you
> guys plan on making people adopt this new software/apps with out a GOOD
> tutorials for newbies? And being said so, Is anybody out here interested
> on doing that? I'll join to that initiative.
> 4. This mailing list is a really good method for helping users but I
> think that maybe is time to wonder about a really nice, cool user
> friendly way to teach new users this exciting distro.
>
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