[Sugar-devel] Venturing into open source

[James Cameron]

Risk of someone else doing the same thing is fairly low; and you can
assess that by looking at which repositories are active.

Have you chosen Python or JavaScript as your implementation language?

On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 03:37:27PM +0530, Aditya Pratap Singh wrote:
> Read it quite a bit. Now I've got an idea for a new Sugar activity. Do I need
> some approval to start working on it? If yes, where do I file for approval. If
> no, please give some tips on how do I start working on it
> 
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2020, 2:09 AM Chihurumnaya Ibiam <[1]ibiamchihurumnaya at gmail.com
> > wrote:
> 
>     Yes, please do. That'll be a great start. 
> 
>     [2]https://pygobject.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
>     Should help.
> 
>     On Thu, Dec 3, 2020, 4:54 PM Aditya Pratap Singh <[3]
>     adityapratapsingh51 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>         Should I google "PyGObject Bindings" and learn about it?
> 
>         On Thu, Dec 3, 2020, 8:51 PM Chihurumnaya Ibiam <[4]
>         ibiamchihurumnaya at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>             Sugar and sugar activities are mostly written in python using
>             PyGObject Bindings,
>             you can check out the [5]how-can-i-help page of our docs as it
>             contains some helpful information.
> 
>             You can also check out the [6]contributing page as it contains
>             useful information with regards to contributing code.
> 
>             Feel free to ask any more questions on the list, thanks.
> 
>             --
>             
>             Ibiam Chihurumnaya
>             [7]ibiamchihurumnaya at gmail.com
>            
>            
> 
>             On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 4:12 PM Aditya Pratap Singh <[8]
>             adityapratapsingh51 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>                 I know a decent level of python and a bit lesser c++. If
>                 competitive coding matters, I'm a 3 star holder in Codechef.
> 
>                 On Thu, Dec 3, 2020, 8:40 PM Chihurumnaya Ibiam <[9]
>                 ibiamchihurumnaya at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>                     Hi Aditya,
> 
>                     Welcome to Sugar Labs, It'll be great if we know the skills
>                     you already possess as that'll help point you
>                     in the right direction. Regards.
> 
>                     --
>                     
>                     Ibiam Chihurumnaya
>                     [10]ibiamchihurumnaya at gmail.com
>                    
>                    
> 
>                     On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 6:26 AM Aditya Pratap Singh <[11]
>                     adityapratapsingh51 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>                         Hello everyone! I am due to be starting my college on 4
>                         Jan and am completely free right now. So, I decided to
>                         use this time venturing into open source. After a lot
>                         of Googling around, I scoped in on SugarLabs. Can
>                         someone here kindly guide me on my first steps?
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> References:
> 
> [1] mailto:ibiamchihurumnaya at gmail.com
> [2] https://pygobject.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
> [3] mailto:adityapratapsingh51 at gmail.com
> [4] mailto:ibiamchihurumnaya at gmail.com
> [5] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/blob/master/src/how-can-i-help.md
> [6] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/blob/master/src/contributing.md
> [7] mailto:ibiamchihurumnaya at gmail.com
> [8] mailto:adityapratapsingh51 at gmail.com
> [9] mailto:ibiamchihurumnaya at gmail.com
> [10] mailto:ibiamchihurumnaya at gmail.com
> [11] mailto:adityapratapsingh51 at gmail.com
> [12] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> [13] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

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