On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
That's very kind of you. Actually https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom/Packaging_Sugar_Activities and people at the irc helped a lot. > 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
