[15:02] <brainskan> Hi everyone. I logged in here to see how I can volunteer to help with Ubuntu Studio development. I have used Ubuntu Studio as my primary OS for the past 2-3 years and like it a lot. I'm 50 years old and have been a computer enthusiast my whole life, from when computers first started appearing in homes in the early 1980s. I have had parts of my job involved in aspects of I.T. during my career, but I have never 
[15:02] <brainskan>  programmer or IT person.  I would consider myself more of a power user that can do a little coding. My day job is running an accounting department for a manufacturing company. I would like to have an excuse to dive deeper in the Linux operatings system. I have built apps from source code a few times (Supercollider and a couple others), but I don't claim that I know a lot about that process right now. I could 
[15:02] <brainskan> yself how to create packages of apps. I'm pretty good at writing instructions or documentation. I have acted as a trainer and teacher. My main hobby outside of work is doing digital music and art. That's why I use Ubuntu Studio.
[15:03] <brainskan> I don't know how active this chat is. If I am not here later, feel free to reach me at brianj.romaing@protonmail.com. I just need to be pointed in a direction, and I can figure out what I need to do.
[15:04] <brainskan> I joined the mail list and setup an a Ubuntu One/Launchpad account. I don't know what a Launchpad account is, but I have one. :-)
[16:39] <OvenWerks> all sounds good.
[16:39] <OvenWerks> brainskan: I am sure Eickmeyer will drop in at some point and say hi as well.
[16:40] <OvenWerks> we are both West coast North America (Canada/US) so UTC -800 hours will tell you what day and night is for us.
[16:41] <OvenWerks> (summer is -700)
[16:42] <OvenWerks> testing is a big thing for sure. by your comment about Supercollider, I would assume your main focus is audio.
[17:10] <brainskan> Hi OvenWerks. Yes. My main focus is audio. I mainly work in Bitwig, but tinker also with audio programming environments like Supercollider, CSound and Pure Data. I pretty regularly work on digital collage pieces in GIMP and just started doing some small video pieces in KDEnlive.
[17:10] <brainskan> I'm on the east coast of the U.S. near Washington DC.
[17:10] <brainskan> Nice to meet you.
[17:13] <Eickmeyer> brainskan: Welcome! Feel free to hang-out and see where you would fit-in best. I can tell you this: we (OvenWerks and myself) can't do support alone.
[17:13] <OvenWerks> documentation is certainly a place that could use some help.
[17:13] <Eickmeyer> brainskan: Monitor the #ubuntustudio IRC channel as well as the ubuntu-studio tag in askubuntu.com. That would help significantly.
[17:14] <brainskan> Is there a list of open tasks somewhere?
[17:14] <Eickmeyer> brainskan: As OvenWerks said, documentation is a place that could use some love.
[17:14] <Eickmeyer> brainskan: Not really.
[17:15] <Eickmeyer> brainskan: We do very little actual coding to be honest. Ubuntu Studio Controls and Ubuntu Studio Installer are our only two items with any real code that we do. Everything else is purely upstream or packaged.
[17:15] <brainskan> Fair enough.
[17:16] <Eickmeyer> brainskan: If you want to, OvenWerks and I have a wishlist item to convert Ubuntu Studio Installer to Python 3 from tk/tcl.
[17:16] <brainskan> Would it be helpful if I learned how to make packages? Maybe nothing is needed right now, but I could start teaching myself that.
[17:17] <Eickmeyer> brainskan: You can experiment with that all you want! I don't have the link off the top of my head, but google "Ubuntu Packaging Guide" and "Debian Packaging" and that should show you the guides.
[17:17] <Eickmeyer> brainskan: I've been doing packaging for almost 2 years and I still don't have it completely down. lol
[17:18] <brainskan> The current installer is in an older version of Python? tk/tcl is the old/original graphics framework for making a gui, right? Are you trying to change that to Qt or something? I just recently started teaching myself python. There are a few things at my work I would like to use that for. So that might be a good extra excuse to focus on it more.
[17:20] <brainskan> LOL. I'm not afraid to dive in and figure things out. I'm a lifelong noob at everything :-)  It's an attitude of discovery and wonder.
[17:20] <Eickmeyer> brainskan: No, you're thinking of Ubiquity.
[17:20] <Eickmeyer> !ubuntustudio-installer | brainskan
[17:23] <brainskan> Got it. I will go take a look at that later and see if it's something I could commit to jumping into.
[17:23] <Eickmeyer> Yep! Code is at https://launchpad.net/ubuntustudio-installer
[17:24]  * OvenWerks actually likes tcl/tk better than python but knows that there are more people who know python...
[17:25] <brainskan> Got that page on Launchpad. I will figure out how to "subscribe" to it, or whatever the correct term is, so I can find it later.
[17:26] <Eickmeyer> brainskan: Probabaly just bookmark it?
[17:26] <Eickmeyer> There's no real "subscribing" to projects in launchpad. :/
[17:27] <Eickmeyer> What's your launchpad link, @brainskan?
[17:27]  * Eickmeyer has been @-ing people, using a different chat platform has given me bad habits :D
[17:29] <brainskan> Is this a launchpad link? https://launchpad.net/~brainskan
[17:29] <Eickmeyer> Yes.
[17:29] <brainskan> My ID is the same over there: "brainskan"
[17:30] <Eickmeyer> Welcome to the dev team. :)
[17:31] <Eickmeyer> Feel free to play around with the code in ubuntustudio-installer. It's a git repo, so if you have experience with that, you should know what you're doing.
[17:31] <Eickmeyer> Here's a great way to work with Launchpad using git: 
[17:32] <Eickmeyer> https://help.launchpad.net/Code/Git
[17:32] <OvenWerks> brainskan: you should use a development branch because tcl -> python is basically a rewrite
[17:32] <brainskan> Thanks! I understand the git thing a little. I will figure out how to pull a copy so I can look at it.
[17:33] <Eickmeyer> Yep, just create a development branch and you should be good to go.
[17:33] <Eickmeyer> Don't touch the debian folder. We'll worry about that later. :)
[17:36] <brainskan> I will take a few days to digest all this, read some code, see what I think I could help with, stuff like that.
[17:36] <brainskan> I won't write anything or upload/commit (whatever the right word is).
[17:36] <Eickmeyer> Yeah, go for it. Looks like you're plenty motivated. We've had people come in here and ask us to put them to work as opposed to looking for it, if you know what I mean.
[17:38] <brainskan> I know how that goes. It takes time and energy to manage people. Sometimes it isn't actually helpful when people just keep asking for guidance and need too much training. I mean, intentions are great and all. But that stuff uses energy.
[17:45] <brainskan> My day gig is calling. Gotta get some deadlines met. Nice to meet you guys! I will dig into this stuff you talked about and pop back in another time soon.
[17:45] <OvenWerks> o/