<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Forwarded conversation</span></div><div class="gmail_quote">Subject: <b class="gmail_sendername">[SoaS] want to contribute to Sugar on a Stick - introducing myself</b><br>
------------------------<br><br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">Kalpa Welivitigoda</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:callkalpa@gmail.com">callkalpa@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:03 AM<br>
To: <a href="mailto:soas@lists.sugarlabs.org">soas@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br></font><br></span><br>Hi,<br>
<br>
I am Kalpa Welivitigoda from Sri Lanka.<br>
<br>
I was searching for a FOSS project to contribute on and I came across<br>
Sugar on a Stick through OpenHatch.<br>
<br>
I am involved in Fedora Project [1] , Mozilla Firefox and have<br>
contributed in lokalizing some of the other projects including<br>
OpenOffice, pidgin, GNOME etc. Apart from them I am active on Hanthana<br>
Linux [2], a local project. Hanthana is a remix of Fedora. I attend<br>
FOSS related events and talk about FOSS to make the public aware. I<br>
currently write to two local e-magazines (FOSS User [3] and Hanthana+,<br>
yet to be released.)<br>
<br>
In technical aspects, I am familiar with java and python and uses<br>
Fedora as my primary and only OS. In Sugar on a Stick I hope to make<br>
use of my python knowledge and learn more on python. I also wish to<br>
package applications and actually I have done one related to fedora<br>
Sound SIG [4]. But it is not upstream yet since there are some more<br>
sound tracks to be added. I wish to learn further on packaging also.<br>
<br>
So at the moment the ways I can contribute to Sugar on a Stick will be with;<br>
1) testing<br>
2) fixing bugs or adding new features to existing activities (depend<br>
on the level of python expertise needed)<br>
3) packaging activities for fedora<br>
<br>
I am reading for my BSc of Eng degree major in Electrical Engineering<br>
and I wish to contribute to FOSS in my leisure time.<br>
<br>
My irc nickname is callkalpa<br>
<br>
Please help me get started!<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Callkalpa" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Callkalpa</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://www.hanthana.org" target="_blank">http://www.hanthana.org</a><br>
[3] <a href="http://www.fossuser.lk" target="_blank">http://www.fossuser.lk</a><br>
[4] <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Sound" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Sound</a><br>
<br>
--<br>
Best Regards,<br>
<br>
Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda<br>
<a href="http://about.me/callkalpa" target="_blank">http://about.me/callkalpa</a><br>
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<br>----------<br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">Frederick Grose</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fgrose@gmail.com">fgrose@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:41 PM<br>
To: <a href="mailto:soas@lists.sugarlabs.org">soas@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br></font><br></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div></div><div>Welcome Kalpa!</div><div><br></div><div>The Sugar on a Stick project, <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick</a>, truly needs new contributors.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Peter Robinson, <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pbrobinson" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pbrobinson</a>, is the lead contributor.</div><div>See <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Sugar_0.94" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Sugar_0.94</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>He is very busy with packaging support, and seems now to be in the critical path for the new OLPC XO-1.75 ARM builds,</div><div><a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/devel@lists.laptop.org/msg27817.html" target="_blank">http://www.mail-archive.com/devel@lists.laptop.org/msg27817.html</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>He will likely respond with ways you might assist.</div><div><br></div><div>Thomas Gilliard, <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Satellit" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Satellit</a>, is an active tester. See <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I, <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:FGrose" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:FGrose</a>, have been working on Sugar Clone,</div><div><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Sugar_Clone" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Sugar_Clone</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Sebastian Sziallas, <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sdz" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sdz</a>, and Mel Chua, <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mchua" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mchua</a>, have moved on to other projects.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Packaging Sugar Activities, <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar_Activities" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar_Activities</a>, in Fedora is one need. Mel and Sebastian prepared a classroom last year, <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom/Packaging_Sugar_Activities" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom/Packaging_Sugar_Activities</a>, to help.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Sugar also has a rich set of Activities for music and sound processing,</div><div><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Tam_Tam" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Tam_Tam</a>.</div>
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<br></div><div>Art Hunkins, <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/user/652" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/user/652</a>, is active developing a new SamplePlay Activity,</div><div>
<a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg22396.html" target="_blank">http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg22396.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>You might also collaborate with <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Dschonstein" title="User:Dschonstein" style="font-size:13px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(6, 69, 173);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(211, 211, 211);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px" target="_blank">David Schönstein</a>, who prepared,</div>
<div><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Sound" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Sound</a></div><div>a while back.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope you find some ways to contribute, even by asking more questions.</div>
<div><br></div><div> Best wishes, --Fred</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
<br>----------<br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">Kalpa Welivitigoda</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:callkalpa@gmail.com">callkalpa@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 4:36 AM<br>
To: Frederick Grose <<a href="mailto:fgrose@gmail.com">fgrose@gmail.com</a>><br>Cc: <a href="mailto:soas@lists.sugarlabs.org">soas@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br></font><br></span><br><div><div></div></div>Thanks a lot Fredrick for your informative reply.<br>
I'll go through the class logs on packing sugar activities for Fedora<br>
and hope to contribute by packaging the activities that are not yet<br>
packaged.<br>
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</font><div><div></div></div><br>----------<br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">Thomas C Gilliard</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:satellit@bendbroadband.com">satellit@bendbroadband.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:00 AM<br>To: <a href="mailto:callkalpa@gmail.com">callkalpa@gmail.com</a><br>Cc: Development of live Sugar distributions <<a href="mailto:soas@lists.sugarlabs.org">soas@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>>, Frederick Grose <<a href="mailto:fgrose@gmail.com">fgrose@gmail.com</a>><br>
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Hi;<br>
Also look at :<br>
<a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit</a><br>
<a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Floss_Manuals" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Floss_Manuals</a><br>
<br>
> <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/MakeYourOwnSugarActivities" target="_blank">http://www.archive.org/details/MakeYourOwnSugarActivities</a><br>
<br>
<a href="http://en.flossmanuals.net/" target="_blank">http://en.flossmanuals.net/</a><br>
<br>
Thanks for helping...<br>
<br>
Tom Gilliard<br>
satellit_on #sugar freenode IRC</div>
<br>----------<br><span class="undefined"><font color="#888">From: <b class="undefined">Kalpa Welivitigoda</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:callkalpa@gmail.com">callkalpa@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:19 AM<br>
To: Thomas C Gilliard <<a href="mailto:satellit@bendbroadband.com">satellit@bendbroadband.com</a>><br>Cc: Development of live Sugar distributions <<a href="mailto:soas@lists.sugarlabs.org">soas@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>>, Frederick Grose <<a href="mailto:fgrose@gmail.com">fgrose@gmail.com</a>><br>
</font><br></span><br><div><div></div></div>Thanks Thomas for the links. It's better that the Making Own Sugar<br>
Activities guide is also in epub so that I can read it on my nook :-)<br>
<br>
I finished going through the class room logs on creating fedora<br>
packages and successfully completed the sample package<br>
sugar-visualmatc.<br>
<br>
In <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar_Activities" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar_Activities</a> there are two<br>
sections as "Fructose Activities" and "Honey Activities". What are<br>
they some version names. Is it ok if I try ro package those are in<br>
"Honey Activities" section?<br>
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<div><div></div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Kalpa, Thanks for jumping right in!</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div>Please see this wiki page,</div><div><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Taxonomy">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Taxonomy</a></div>
<div>for the explanation of Fructose and Honey.</div><div><br></div><div>This page (over a year since updated) has some guidelines we had proposed for selecting Activities.</div><div><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/SoaS_Activity_Criteria">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/SoaS_Activity_Criteria</a></div>
<div><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Activity_Criteria/Status">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Activity_Criteria/Status</a></div><div>Following the table on the Status page is a list of Activities that were in line for evaluation.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I've copied this post to our main Sugar Labs, 'It's an Education Project', mailing list to solicit more comments on Activities needing packaging.</div><div><br></div><div> --Fred</div>
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