Thanks Peter for the reply. On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> 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. > But of course your not restricted to that, I'm open to other ideas as well. > > Welcome aboard. > > Regards, > Peter > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > -- Best Regards, Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda http://about.me/callkalpa _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
