[Sugar-devel] Making contributions

[Utkarsh Tiwari]

Hi,
    I can work  on making a screencast tutorial that walks through the
Sugar Labs installation process, from getting Virtual Box to installing
Sugar OS. We can make the tutorial useful for both users and developers.

We also need to add a resolution to the recent installation problems with
sugar-build due to latest unstable 'Browse' release'. I think I can do that
if anyone could grant me with write access to
https://developer.sugarlabs.org/dev-environment.md.html

I can also translate the articles on the developers page at
https://developer.sugarlabs.org to Hindi language.


Regards,
Utkarsh Tiwari

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 8:50 PM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>
wrote:

> Hi, All
>
> I am not a Sugar developer but support use of Sugar in school deployments.
>
> Currently, we have a request from the developer community to test release
> 0.110. This version is not available for the XO.
> It is possible that the development environment could be used in a primary
> school deployment on other platforms. While the Sugar website (
> http://www.sugarlabs.org) claims support for  Sugar as a desktop for
> gnu/linux; an update to the documentation of the installation process for
> Sugar 0.110 as a desktop on gnu/linux is needed and would be a valuable
> contribution.
>
> I think a top priority would be a desktop for Raspbian (Debian). There are
> also deployments using legacy laptops (32 and 64 bit Intel) that could use
> a
> Sugar desktop for Ubuntu.
>
> An opportunity apparently exists to make Sugar available as a Windows 10
> application (virtual or through the ubuntu collaboration).
>
> Utkarsh Tiwari has used gif automation effectively to document ux for
> Sugar - you may want to take a look at this to augment your screencast
> tutorial.
>
> In considering translation, it is important to consider the audience. I
> think your team is in good position to judge whether a translation of the
> 'setup' page would enable sufficient additional developers to participate
> in Sugar development to justify the time. This could be compared to a
> translation of user documentation such as the Help activity.
>
> Personally, I believe that the goal of Sugar development is provide a more
> powerful, effective and constructive learning environment for its users,
> primary school children. The development environment is at most a means to
> that end. Making Sugar available on more deployable platforms is central to
> that goal.
>
> Tony
>
> On 10/30/2016 08:48 PM, Nguyen, Lam wrote:
>
> Hi Sugar developers,
>
>
> We are a team which consists of Marshall, Angel, Sasha, and Lam (myself)
> from Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, US. We have the development
> environment up and running on our machines, and we look forward to
> contributing to the Sugar project. Currently, we want to get started by
> finding ways to contribute that do not involve coding (yet). We came up
> with these 3 ideas that we believe will facilitate the installation
> process, and we hope you could give us feedback on which idea would be most
> beneficial for the project.
>
>
> 1) Translate the articles on the developers page at
> https://developer.sugarlabs.org to different languages (we can do 3-4
> languages, including Hindi, Nepali, Russian, Vietnamese and possibly
> Spanish)
>
>
> 2) Make updates to the instructions on the page “Setup a development
> environment” (at https://developer.sugarlabs.org/dev-environment.md.html).
> We can include tips and fixes for some issues that we have encountered and
> overcome.
>
>
> 3) Make a screencast tutorial that walks through the Sugar Labs
> installation process, from getting Virtual Box to installing Sugar OS. We
> can make the tutorial useful for both users and developers.
>
>
> Which idea(s) do you think we should work on? We really appreciate your
> input. Thank you, and have a great day.
>
>
> Best,
>
> Lam
>
>
>
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Regards,
Ütkarsh Tiwari
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