[Sugar-devel] Willing to Contribute through GSoC

[James Cameron]

That's fairly difficult to predict.  Nothing about your skill map has
anything unique to open source.

I suggest you pick Sugarizer, Sugar, or Music Blocks.  Identify the
software license in whatever you have picked.

Then read the license, and if English is not your first language read
a translation of the license.  That will give you an idea of the scope
of work that we consider "open source".

Next, work towards writing, testing, and debugging open source
software, see http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html "Status
in the Hacker Culture".

For Sugar, which is based on Python, the document we maintain as
guidance to contributing is at
https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/blob/master/src/contributing.md

Other software may have other guidance.

On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 10:57:46AM +0530, Vinay Tambey wrote:
> Thank you for the clarification. 
> 
> How do I start contributing to the Sugar Labs software as this is my first-time
> to open-source ?
> 
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 12:50 AM James Cameron <[1]quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> 
>     Of the Sugar Labs software, nothing uses Java, Sugarizer uses HTML, CSS and
>     JavaScript, and Sugar uses Python.  I'm not sure if anything uses MERN.
> 
>     Open source contribution is that your new code is written by you and you
>     either assign copyright during commit, or you retain copyright and give it
>     an open source license before we can accept it.
> 
>     Welcome.
> 
>     On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 10:49:56PM +0530, Vinay Tambey wrote:
>     > Hi, to all the mentors and contributors.
>     > I am Vinay Tambey, a Software Engineering student, preparing for GSoC
>     2024 to
>     > gain professional real-world projects experience.
>     > I am skilled in Java, front-end development (HTML, CSS, Bootstrap,
>     JavaScript &
>     > React), Python (basic) and currently learning MERN tech-stack.
>     > I am here to start open-source contribution to this platform, therefore,
>     please
>     > guide me.
> 
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> References:
> 
> [1] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
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