Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding Stand at FOSDEM [1-2 February]

2019-12-05 Thread Vipul Gupta
Thanks, James, I went through the logs. I concur with the views put forward by MrBIOS and Samson. I think conferences help. Not all of them. But, they do matter. Conferences put Sugar Labs out there in front of the world, leads to interesting discussions and new collaborations. As Walter also

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2019-12-05 Thread prakash ujjwal
Hi, this is prakash from New Delhi. I have been contributing to sugarizer activities. I know how to develop a sugarizer web activity and wanted to know how can I port the same sugarizer activity to sugar dekstop? Do I have to write the entire activity in Python again or if there's a way we can

Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding Stand at FOSDEM [1-2 February]

2019-12-05 Thread Devin Ulibarri
Hi Vipul, Thanks for all this. On Thu, 2019-12-05 at 19:18 +0530, Vipul Gupta wrote: > Thanks, James, I went through the logs. I concur with the views put > forward by MrBIOS and Samson. I think conferences help.  They most certainly can. As a new org, with a new set of responsibilities, what

Re: [Sugar-devel] Contributing to Open Source

2019-12-05 Thread Devin Ulibarri
On Thu, 2019-12-05 at 15:26 -0800, Raghav Aggarwal wrote: > Can you tell me how do i get started in Sugarlabs for GSOC.? You are a bit early. You can do three things: 1. Join us in IRC at #sugar on freenode 2. Look for issues to help us with on Github (communicate with us on IRC and/or here for

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2019-12-05 Thread James Cameron
G'day Prakash, Sugar began with mostly Python activities, as well as some activities using other languages such as C and SmallTalk. Support for running web activities, using JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS, was added to Sugar using a module called Sugar Web. An RPC was added to Sugar shell using

Re: [Sugar-devel] Contributing to Open Source

2019-12-05 Thread D. Joe
I'm wondering if you can please tell us something that might be very helpful: How did you find the contact information for the Sugarlabs mailing list without finding any of the getting started documentation? Did someone give you the mailing list address, and if so, in what context was that

Re: [Sugar-devel] Contributing to Open Source

2019-12-05 Thread James Cameron
Thanks Joe. It would be sad if someone is referring people to us with the wrong expectations, but I've heard it does happen. I'm thinking also it is a translation problem; both of international English, meaning of an open source project, and cultural expectations. The questions that ask for our

[Sugar-devel] Port to Python 3 (1 of 5)

2019-12-05 Thread Abhay Malik
Hey, I am planning to start this task (Port to Python 3 (1 of 5)), but however I’m a bit lost and I don’t know where to start, so can you please give me some pointers as of where to begin to start doing this task ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

Re: [Sugar-devel] Port to Python 3 (1 of 5)

2019-12-05 Thread James Cameron
We have a Python 3 Porting Guide; https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/blob/master/src/python-porting-guide.md Skills you need, or will acquire, are; - knowing how to write and debug programs in Python 2, - knowing how to write and debug programs in Python 3, We also have a Measuring

Re: [Sugar-devel] Contributing to Open Source

2019-12-05 Thread Raghav Aggarwal
Can you tell me how do i get started in Sugarlabs for GSOC.? On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 1:22 PM Raghav Aggarwal wrote: > Thanks, I'll check them out. > > On Sat, 9 Nov 2019, 2:41 am James Cameron, wrote: > >> Welcome. I've sent you my latest "How to get started as a Sugar Labs >> developer [v7]"