On Thu, August 25, 2011 8:42 am, Frederick Grose wrote: > Forwarded conversation > Subject: [SoaS] want to contribute to Sugar on a Stick - introducing > myself > ------------------------ > > From: *Kalpa Welivitigoda* <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:03 AM > To: [email protected] > > > 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.
Welcome. > I am involved in Fedora Project [1] , Mozilla Firefox and have > contributed in localizing some of the other projects including > OpenOffice, pidgin, GNOME etc. I see that you are also involved in the Sinhala translation of Sugar. > 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 See Make Your Own Sugar Activities! http://booki.flossmanuals.net/make-your-own-sugar-activities/_edit/ I could do with some help packaging a recently GPLed math/programming language for Sugar. > 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 > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > > ---------- > From: *Frederick Grose* <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:41 PM > To: [email protected] > > > 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/[email protected]/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/[email protected]/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* <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 4:36 AM > To: Frederick Grose <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > > > 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* <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:00 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Development of live Sugar distributions <[email protected]>, > Frederick Grose <[email protected]> > > > ** > 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* <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:19 AM > To: Thomas C Gilliard <[email protected]> > Cc: Development of live Sugar distributions <[email protected]>, > Frederick Grose <[email protected]> > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. 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