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

[Thomas C Gilliard]

Kalpa Welivitigoda wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>     
>
>   
Hi;
Also look at :
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Floss_Manuals

 > http://www.archive.org/details/MakeYourOwnSugarActivities

http://en.flossmanuals.net/

Thanks for helping...

Tom Gilliard
satellit_on #sugar freenode IRC

> 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.
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