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

[Kalpa Welivitigoda]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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, 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
>
>
>


Thanks a lot Fredrick for your informative reply.
I'll go through the class logs on packing sugar activities for Fedora
and hope to contribute by packaging the activities that are not yet
packaged.


-- 
Best Regards,

Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda
http://about.me/callkalpa