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+== Do you think there are some easy projects with which I can help Sugar Labs and at the same time gain some practical experience programming? ==
+We'd love to get you involved. (FYI, there is a group of students
+working with Sugar/OLPC in a local school. I can introduce you if you
+are interested.)
+Re where to get started, there are number of different options.
+Perhaps the easiest route is to simply take a Sugar Activity that you
+find interesting and make a modification of some sort. This will get
+you engaged with the Sugar codebase in a give you a toe hold into
+getting more involved. Or you could try writing a Sugar activity from
+scratch (really not so difficult and reasonably well documented these
+days: http://en.flossmanuals.net/ActivitiesGuideSugar/Introduction).
+Keep it simple to begin with and well aligned with some personal
+interest.
+There is a running list of open tickets (bug reports and feature
+requests) here: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/. This interface is
+optimized for the seasoned developer, not newbies, but if you have the
+fortitude, you will find lots of introductory challenges.
+There is also a Feature request section of our wiki. Many of these
+project need a champion and again, some are relatively easy to
+approach as someone new to Python
+([[Features]]).
+Finally, there is no penalty for trying and not succeeding in any of
+these tasks. You learn through doing, so jump in.
+regards.