[SoaS] Activities needing packaging?

[mokurai at earthtreasury.org]

On Thu, August 25, 2011 8:42 am, Frederick Grose wrote:
> Forwarded conversation
> Subject: [SoaS] want to contribute to Sugar on a Stick - introducing
> myself
> ------------------------
>
> From: *Kalpa Welivitigoda* <callkalpa at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:03 AM
> To: soas at lists.sugarlabs.org
>
>
> 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.

Welcome.

> I am involved in Fedora Project [1] , Mozilla Firefox and have
> contributed in localizing  some of the other projects including
> OpenOffice, pidgin, GNOME etc.

I see that you are also involved in the Sinhala translation of Sugar.

> 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

See Make Your Own Sugar Activities!

http://booki.flossmanuals.net/make-your-own-sugar-activities/_edit/

I could do with some help packaging a recently GPLed math/programming
language for Sugar.

> 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
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> From: *Frederick Grose* <fgrose at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:41 PM
> To: soas at lists.sugarlabs.org
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
> ----------
> From: *Kalpa Welivitigoda* <callkalpa at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 4:36 AM
> To: Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com>
> Cc: soas at lists.sugarlabs.org
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> --
>
> ----------
> From: *Thomas C Gilliard* <satellit at bendbroadband.com>
> Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:00 AM
> To: callkalpa at gmail.com
> Cc: Development of live Sugar distributions <soas at lists.sugarlabs.org>,
> Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com>
>
>
> **
> 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
>
> ----------
> From: *Kalpa Welivitigoda* <callkalpa at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:19 AM
> To: Thomas C Gilliard <satellit at bendbroadband.com>
> Cc: Development of live Sugar distributions <soas at lists.sugarlabs.org>,
> Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com>
>
>
> 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?
> --
>
> Kalpa,   Thanks for jumping right in!
>
> Please see this wiki page,
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Taxonomy
> for the explanation of Fructose and Honey.
>
> This page (over a year since updated) has some guidelines we had proposed
> for selecting Activities.
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/SoaS_Activity_Criteria
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Activity_Criteria/Status
> Following the table on the Status page is a list of Activities that were
> in
> line for evaluation.
>
> 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.
>
>           --Fred
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Edward Mokurai
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ج) Cherlin
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The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination.
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