On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Kalpa Welivitigoda <callka...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Peter for the reply. > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Kalpa, >> >>> 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! >> >> Welcome! I'd be more than happy to help get you started. There's all >> sorts of things to do to get started. >> >> 1) We can never do enough testing! We have nightly builds of SoaS that >> are available at the link below. All feed back to the mailing list is >> great, fixes to any bugs is even better :-) >> >> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/ >> >> 2) Fixing and adding of features is very welcome. Some of the things >> that come directly to mind is improved internationalisation support >> with in SoaS, some means within the UI to update the OS. I'm sure I >> have more that don't come direct to mind at the moment. >> >> I have a few ideas so feel free to ping me on IRC if you want to >> discuss it some more. My nick is pbrobinson and I'm usually hanging >> out in #fedora-mobility or #sugar >> >> 3) For packaging you can see what's currently packages with "yum list >> sugar*" and anything not in that list it would be great to package. If >> your interested in assisting in maintaining existing packages that >> would be great! >> > > testing and bug fixing, I'll look into as time permits. For the moment > I though to stick for translations and packaging.
Cool, if you need any assistance with packaging please ask. If your already a Fedora packager and would like to co-maintain and of the Sugar Activities let me know, I would quite happily add you to the ownership to help maintain them. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
