[SoaS] want to contribute to Sugar on a Stick - introducing myself

[Frederick Grose]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Kalpa Welivitigoda <callkalpa at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am Kalpa Welivitigoda from Sri Lanka.
>
> I was searching for a FOSS project to contribute on and I came across
> Sugar on a Stick through OpenHatch.
>
> I am involved in Fedora Project [1] , Mozilla Firefox and have
> contributed in lokalizing  some of the other projects including
> OpenOffice, pidgin, GNOME etc. Apart from them I am active on Hanthana
> Linux [2], a local project. Hanthana is a remix of Fedora. I attend
> FOSS related events and talk about FOSS to make the public aware. I
> currently write to two local e-magazines (FOSS User [3] and Hanthana+,
> yet to be released.)
>
> In technical aspects, I am familiar with java and python and uses
> Fedora as my primary and only OS. In Sugar on a Stick I hope to make
> use of my python knowledge and learn more on python. I also wish to
> package applications and actually I have done one related to fedora
> Sound SIG [4]. But it is not upstream yet since there are some more
> sound tracks to be added. I wish to learn further on packaging also.
>
> So at the moment the ways I can contribute to Sugar on a Stick will be
> with;
> 1) testing
> 2) fixing bugs or adding new features to existing activities (depend
> on the level of python expertise needed)
> 3) packaging activities for fedora
>
> I am reading for my BSc of Eng degree major in Electrical Engineering
> and I wish to contribute to FOSS in my leisure time.
>
> My irc nickname is callkalpa
>
> Please help me get started!
>
> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Callkalpa
> [2] http://www.hanthana.org
> [3] http://www.fossuser.lk
> [4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Sound
>
> --
> Best Regards,
>
> Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda
> http://about.me/callkalpa



Welcome Kalpa!

The Sugar on a Stick project,
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick, truly
needs new contributors.

Peter Robinson, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pbrobinson, is the lead
contributor.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Sugar_0.94.

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,
http://www.mail-archive.com/devel@lists.laptop.org/msg27817.html.

He will likely respond with ways you might assist.

Thomas Gilliard, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Satellit, is an active
tester. See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS
.

I, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:FGrose, have been working on Sugar
Clone,
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Sugar_Clone

Sebastian Sziallas, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sdz, and Mel Chua,
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mchua, have moved on to other projects.

Packaging Sugar Activities, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar_Activities,
in Fedora is one need.  Mel and Sebastian prepared a classroom last year,
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom/Packaging_Sugar_Activities, to
help.

Sugar also has a rich set of Activities for music and sound processing,
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Tam_Tam.

Art Hunkins, http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/user/652, is active
developing a new SamplePlay Activity,
http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg22396.html

You might also collaborate with David
Schönstein<http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Dschonstein>,
who prepared,
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Sound
a while back.

I hope you find some ways to contribute, even by asking more questions.

     Best wishes,      --Fred
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