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

[Kalpa Welivitigoda]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Kalpa Welivitigoda
> <callkalpa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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 :-)
>
> I'll have a look at the package soon, I found that working by example
> is quite useful, I'm not currently a sponsor but I should probably
> sort that out too.
>

That's very kind of you.
Actually https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom/Packaging_Sugar_Activities
and people at the irc helped a lot.

> Peter
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Best Regards,

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