[Sugar-devel] Introduction

[Rafael Ortiz]

Hi Mike

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> On 28 Jan 2011, at 18:56, Mike Rehner <babarehner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am a retired high school computer science teacher from Columbus, Ohio,
> USA. My background includes both computer science and instructional design.
> I would like to volunteer 8-12 hours a week to work with the Activity Team.
> I am looking to start something very small while I slowly set up my dev
> environment and become familiar with Sugar Labs.
>
>
Welcome aboard!.

As Gary says one of the best ways to help is adopting an activity.

All the pages inside Category Activity Team are useful.


 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Category:Activity_Team

Cheers

 Just wanted to say welcome!
>
> Fab, I see you've already found the Activity Team pages on the wiki, that
> should lead you to the resources to get you up and running. Once you have
> your dev environment running comfortably (I use a mix of XO-1 laptops and my
> Mac laptop running a VirtualBox VM of Fedora with Sugar installed as its
> desktop) one way to help contribute could be to adopt an un-maintained
> Activity. This usually involves:
>
> - getting familiar with Python, and some GTK+
> - learning enough git to get you by using the repositories at
> http://git.sugarlabs.org
> - keeping an eye on tickets filed at http://bugs.sugarlabs.org for your
> adopted Activity
> - releasing .xo bundles from time to time at
> http://activities.sugarlabs.org
> - uploading the source to http://download.sugarlabs.org so distro
> packagers have easy access
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
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