Forwarded conversation Subject: [SoaS] want to contribute to Sugar on a Stick - introducing myself ------------------------
From: *Kalpa Welivitigoda* <callka...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:03 AM To: s...@lists.sugarlabs.org Hi, I am Kalpa Welivitigoda from Sri Lanka. I was searching for a FOSS project to contribute on and I came across Sugar on a Stick through OpenHatch. I am involved in Fedora Project [1] , Mozilla Firefox and have contributed in lokalizing some of the other projects including OpenOffice, pidgin, GNOME etc. Apart from them I am active on Hanthana Linux [2], a local project. Hanthana is a remix of Fedora. I attend FOSS related events and talk about FOSS to make the public aware. I currently write to two local e-magazines (FOSS User [3] and Hanthana+, yet to be released.) In technical aspects, I am familiar with java and python and uses Fedora as my primary and only OS. In Sugar on a Stick I hope to make use of my python knowledge and learn more on python. I also wish to package applications and actually I have done one related to fedora Sound SIG [4]. But it is not upstream yet since there are some more sound tracks to be added. I wish to learn further on packaging also. So at the moment the ways I can contribute to Sugar on a Stick will be with; 1) testing 2) fixing bugs or adding new features to existing activities (depend on the level of python expertise needed) 3) packaging activities for fedora I am reading for my BSc of Eng degree major in Electrical Engineering and I wish to contribute to FOSS in my leisure time. My irc nickname is callkalpa Please help me get started! [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Callkalpa [2] http://www.hanthana.org [3] http://www.fossuser.lk [4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Sound -- Best Regards, Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda http://about.me/callkalpa _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list s...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas ---------- From: *Frederick Grose* <fgr...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:41 PM To: s...@lists.sugarlabs.org Welcome Kalpa! The Sugar on a Stick project, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick, truly needs new contributors. Peter Robinson, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pbrobinson, is the lead contributor. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Sugar_0.94. 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, http://www.mail-archive.com/devel@lists.laptop.org/msg27817.html. He will likely respond with ways you might assist. Thomas Gilliard, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Satellit, is an active tester. See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS . I, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:FGrose, have been working on Sugar Clone, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Sugar_Clone Sebastian Sziallas, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sdz, and Mel Chua, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mchua, have moved on to other projects. Packaging Sugar Activities, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar_Activities, in Fedora is one need. Mel and Sebastian prepared a classroom last year, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom/Packaging_Sugar_Activities, to help. Sugar also has a rich set of Activities for music and sound processing, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Tam_Tam. Art Hunkins, http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/user/652, is active developing a new SamplePlay Activity, http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg22396.html You might also collaborate with David Schönstein<http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Dschonstein>, who prepared, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Sound a while back. I hope you find some ways to contribute, even by asking more questions. Best wishes, --Fred ---------- From: *Kalpa Welivitigoda* <callka...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 4:36 AM To: Frederick Grose <fgr...@gmail.com> Cc: s...@lists.sugarlabs.org Thanks a lot Fredrick for your informative reply. I'll go through the class logs on packing sugar activities for Fedora and hope to contribute by packaging the activities that are not yet packaged. -- ---------- From: *Thomas C Gilliard* <satel...@bendbroadband.com> Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:00 AM To: callka...@gmail.com Cc: Development of live Sugar distributions <s...@lists.sugarlabs.org>, Frederick Grose <fgr...@gmail.com> ** Hi; Also look at : http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Floss_Manuals > http://www.archive.org/details/MakeYourOwnSugarActivities http://en.flossmanuals.net/ Thanks for helping... Tom Gilliard satellit_on #sugar freenode IRC ---------- From: *Kalpa Welivitigoda* <callka...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:19 AM To: Thomas C Gilliard <satel...@bendbroadband.com> Cc: Development of live Sugar distributions <s...@lists.sugarlabs.org>, Frederick Grose <fgr...@gmail.com> Thanks Thomas for the links. It's better that the Making Own Sugar Activities guide is also in epub so that I can read it on my nook :-) I finished going through the class room logs on creating fedora packages and successfully completed the sample package sugar-visualmatc. In https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar_Activities there are two sections as "Fructose Activities" and "Honey Activities". What are they some version names. Is it ok if I try ro package those are in "Honey Activities" section? -- Kalpa, Thanks for jumping right in! Please see this wiki page, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Taxonomy for the explanation of Fructose and Honey. This page (over a year since updated) has some guidelines we had proposed for selecting Activities. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/SoaS_Activity_Criteria http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Activity_Criteria/Status Following the table on the Status page is a list of Activities that were in line for evaluation. I've copied this post to our main Sugar Labs, 'It's an Education Project', mailing list to solicit more comments on Activities needing packaging. --Fred
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