On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Kalpa Welivitigoda <callka...@gmail.com>
wrote:
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
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, 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
