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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.