I’ve been involved in the Linux/FLOSS community for about 6 years now. I’ve got involved in lots of stuff, and got the warm ‘n’ fuzzies from being able to contribute back into the community - I’m still a moderator over at JustLinux.com, although I probably don’t do as much as I should these days, I still line up talks for ScotLUG and enjoy attending, and I’m still heavily involved in LUGRadio with mirroring, forums, and my one guest present

None of which is particularly surprising to me or you.

However, it took until Monday of this week for me to do something that I had always imagined would happen a lot sooner - I submitted some code to a project. Given that I’ve been programming on and off for >20 years now, I had expected to get involved in something sooner. Sure, I’ve created a few bits and pieces, and made the code available, but this was the first time that I’ve gone to someone elses code, found a problem, and fixed it.

It feels good

The code in question is the very-fledgling, but surprisingly capable Jokosher, an audio editor for Linux. This will come as no surprise to listeners of LR, as Jokosher was original the brainchild of Jono Bacon in response to the criticism that LR was recorded on CuBase and not something Free. It’s being written in Python (which makes it easier for me to hack on), and is coming along nicely. I am hoping that I can contribute something truly useful here.

mrBen