On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Kalpa Welivitigoda <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Kalpa Welivitigoda <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> 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. >> >> 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. >> > > Well, I am not already a Fedora packager, this is my first package > submitted (there is one more and that is not submitted). I'm waiting > for this package to be approved. Next I will package some more > applications and then I will move to co-maintain. Some experience will > make the work easy :-)
I'll have a look at the package soon, I found that working by example is quite useful, I'm not currently a sponsor but I should probably sort that out too. Peter _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
