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

[Kalpa Welivitigoda]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Kalpa Welivitigoda
<callkalpa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>


I am happy to announce that I have successfully packaged my first
fedora package sugar-ruler.
I submitted a review request https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=733603

This is my first package and I need a sponsor. Further I highly
appreciate if someone can go through my request and point out if there
is any modifications to be made, since this is my first.

I tried to modify the details under Ruler at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar_Activities but I failed. I am not
allowed it seems. Further what is the column "Fedora 13" there refers
to.

I highly appreciate the supportive community of sugar :-)


-- 
Best Regards,

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