<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Kalpa Welivitigoda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:callkalpa@gmail.com" target="_blank">callkalpa@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi,<br> <br> I am Kalpa Welivitigoda from Sri Lanka.<br> <br> I was searching for a FOSS project to contribute on and I came across<br> Sugar on a Stick through OpenHatch.<br> <br> I am involved in Fedora Project [1] , Mozilla Firefox and have<br> contributed in lokalizing some of the other projects including<br> OpenOffice, pidgin, GNOME etc. Apart from them I am active on Hanthana<br> Linux [2], a local project. Hanthana is a remix of Fedora. I attend<br> FOSS related events and talk about FOSS to make the public aware. I<br> currently write to two local e-magazines (FOSS User [3] and Hanthana+,<br> yet to be released.)<br> <br> In technical aspects, I am familiar with java and python and uses<br> Fedora as my primary and only OS. In Sugar on a Stick I hope to make<br> use of my python knowledge and learn more on python. I also wish to<br> package applications and actually I have done one related to fedora<br> Sound SIG [4]. But it is not upstream yet since there are some more<br> sound tracks to be added. I wish to learn further on packaging also.<br> <br> So at the moment the ways I can contribute to Sugar on a Stick will be with;<br> 1) testing<br> 2) fixing bugs or adding new features to existing activities (depend<br> on the level of python expertise needed)<br> 3) packaging activities for fedora<br> <br> I am reading for my BSc of Eng degree major in Electrical Engineering<br> and I wish to contribute to FOSS in my leisure time.<br> <br> My irc nickname is callkalpa<br> <br> Please help me get started!<br> <br> [1] <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Callkalpa" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Callkalpa</a><br> [2] <a href="http://www.hanthana.org" target="_blank">http://www.hanthana.org</a><br> [3] <a href="http://www.fossuser.lk" target="_blank">http://www.fossuser.lk</a><br> [4] <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Sound" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Sound</a><br> <br> --<br> Best Regards,<br> <br> Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda<br> <a href="http://about.me/callkalpa" target="_blank">http://about.me/callkalpa</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Welcome Kalpa!</div><div><br></div><div>The Sugar on a Stick project, <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick</a>, truly needs new contributors.</div> <div><br></div><div>Peter Robinson, <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pbrobinson">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pbrobinson</a>, is the lead contributor.</div><div>See <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Sugar_0.94">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Sugar_0.94</a>.</div> <div><br></div><div>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,</div><div><a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/devel@lists.laptop.org/msg27817.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/devel@lists.laptop.org/msg27817.html</a>.</div> <div><br></div><div>He will likely respond with ways you might assist.</div><div><br></div><div>Thomas Gilliard, <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Satellit">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Satellit</a>, is an active tester. See <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS</a>.</div> <div><br></div><div>I, <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:FGrose">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:FGrose</a>, have been working on Sugar Clone,</div><div><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Sugar_Clone">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Sugar_Clone</a></div> <div><br></div><div>Sebastian Sziallas, <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sdz">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sdz</a>, and Mel Chua, <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mchua">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mchua</a>, have moved on to other projects.</div> <div><br></div><div>Packaging Sugar Activities, <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar_Activities">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar_Activities</a>, in Fedora is one need. Mel and Sebastian prepared a classroom last year, <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom/Packaging_Sugar_Activities">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom/Packaging_Sugar_Activities</a>, to help.</div> <div><br></div><div>Sugar also has a rich set of Activities for music and sound processing,</div><div><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Tam_Tam">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Tam_Tam</a>.</div><div> <br></div><div>Art Hunkins, <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/user/652">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/user/652</a>, is active developing a new SamplePlay Activity,</div><div><a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg22396.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg22396.html</a></div> <div><br></div><div>You might also collaborate with <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Dschonstein" title="User:Dschonstein" style="font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(211, 211, 211); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; ">David Schönstein</a>, who prepared,</div> <div><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Sound">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Sound</a></div><div>a while back.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope you find some ways to contribute, even by asking more questions.</div> <div><br></div><div> Best wishes, --Fred</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>