[IAEP] Sugar Labs meet H-FOSS

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 03:36, Frederick Grose <fgrose at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> Credit Greg Dekoenigsberg for introducing some of us to Ralph Morelli, Heidi
> Ellis, and Trishan de Lanerolle, who have established the Humanitarian FOSS
> Project, http://www.hfoss.org/, growing out of Trinity College, Wesleyan
> University, and Connecticut College in the USA.
> David Farning suggested that we hold a conference call to share experiences
> about summer institutes, such as
> their http://www.hfoss.org/index.php?page=hfoss-summer-institute, and
> our http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Summer_Program.
> Then, Kevin Cole posted a
> referral, http://www.mail-archive.com/iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg04175.html, to
> Paul Flint's Barre Open Systems Institute, http://www.bosivt.org/, in Barre,
> Vermont USA.
> Karlie Robinson and I have been supporting Stephen Jacobs' Honors Seminar at
> the Rochester Institute of
> Technology, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/RIT_honors_seminar,_developing_for_the_OLPC_XO,
> the Math4 Project, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Math4Team, and Co-ops in the
> Rochester Sugar Summer Program.
> So today, we (David, Ralph, Heidi, Trishan, Stephen, Karlie, Paul, & Fred)
> joined in a conference call to introduce ourselves and learn more about the
> project and programs.  (A collection of web links are available from our
> conference
> at http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting.minutes.20090603_1310.html,
> from a short irc
> log, http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting.log.20090603_1310.html.)
> Ralph shared some history of the H-FOSS project, pretty much as reported on
> their home page, and Heidi pointed us to her SoftHum
> wiki, http://edudev.hfoss.org/index.php/Main_Page.
> Paul described his proposal for a small workshop in
> Barre, http://docbox.flint.com:8081/maple, (perhaps the weekend of 17-21
> July 2009) to test install Sugar on a Stick on several old computers in
> schoolroom so they can support a team programming room for FOSS projects in
> the Barre Institute.  Paul reports that Jeff Elkner
> with http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs_DC will be attending.
> In Rochester, we have a nascent Sugar
> Institute, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Summer_Program/Ideas, with 3
> full-time Co-ops and other members of
> the http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Rochester,_NY grassroots special interest
> group, and we are open to more participants and guests willing to help build
> the program.
> This posting is to intended to expose the Sugar Labs community to our
> projects, and to invite a continuing discussion of how we all can contribute
> to building the Sugar and FOSS ecosystems.
> Thank you for reading, and we hope you are inspired to join in some way.

Sounds great! Bring coders to sugar-devel and #sugar for help when they need it.

Congratulations,

Tomeu

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