[SoaS] Activities needing packaging?

[Kalpa Welivitigoda]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 6:56 AM,  <mokurai at earthtreasury.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

Thanks Mokurai for your notice. I will continue contributing to the
translations and I will look into packaging as well.

>> 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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-- 
Best Regards,

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