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

[Kalpa Welivitigoda]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Thomas C Gilliard
<satellit at bendbroadband.com> wrote:
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> Kalpa Welivitigoda wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Kalpa Welivitigoda <callkalpa at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I am Kalpa Welivitigoda from Sri Lanka.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> --
> 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
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> Hi;
> Also look at :
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Floss_Manuals
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>> http://www.archive.org/details/MakeYourOwnSugarActivities
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> http://en.flossmanuals.net/
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> Thanks for helping...
>

Thanks Thomas for the links. It's better that the Making Own Sugar
Activities guide is also in epub so that I can read it on my nook :-)

I finished going through the class room logs on creating fedora
packages and successfully completed the sample package
sugar-visualmatc.

In https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar_Activities there are two
sections as "Fructose Activities" and "Honey Activities". What are
they some version names. Is it ok if I try ro package those are in
"Honey Activities" section?


> 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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-- 
Best Regards,

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