Please realize...

[Karoliina Salminen]

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. 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.).
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.

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
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