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

[Kalpa Welivitigoda]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:40 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.
>
> Cool, if you need any assistance with packaging please ask. If your
> already a Fedora packager and would like to co-maintain and of the
> Sugar Activities let me know, I would quite happily add you to the
> ownership to help maintain them.
>

Well, I am not already a Fedora packager, this is my first package
submitted (there is one more and that is not submitted). I'm waiting
for this package to be approved. Next I will package some more
applications and then I will move to co-maintain. Some experience will
make the work easy :-)

> Cheers,
> Peter
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Best Regards,

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