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

[Kalpa Welivitigoda]

Thanks Peter for the reply.

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Kalpa,
>
>> 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!
>
> Welcome! I'd be more than happy to help get you started. There's all
> sorts of things to do to get started.
>
> 1) We can never do enough testing! We have nightly builds of SoaS that
> are available at the link below. All feed back to the mailing list is
> great, fixes to any bugs is even better :-)
>
> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/
>
> 2) Fixing and adding of features is very welcome. Some of the things
> that come directly to mind is improved internationalisation support
> with in SoaS, some means within the UI to update the OS. I'm sure I
> have more that don't come direct to mind at the moment.
>
> I have a few ideas so feel free to ping me on IRC if you want to
> discuss it some more. My nick is pbrobinson and I'm usually hanging
> out in #fedora-mobility or #sugar
>
> 3) For packaging you can see what's currently packages with "yum list
> sugar*" and anything not in that list it would be great to package. If
> your interested in assisting in maintaining existing packages that
> would be great!
>

testing and bug fixing, I'll look into as time permits. For the moment
I though to stick for translations and packaging.

> But of course your not restricted to that, I'm open to other ideas as well.
>
> Welcome aboard.
>
> Regards,
> Peter
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Best Regards,

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