[IAEP] Welcome Sugar local labs

[David Farning]

the past couple of weeks has resulted in so great results in Sugar Local Labs.

Sugar Labs Colombia  -
http://co.sugarlabs.org/go/Laboratorios_Az%C3%BAcar_Colombia - has
gotten approved as a not-for-profit in Colombia!  This is great news
for them.  It means that they will be able enter local contracts with
local schools to provide service and support contracts for local
deployments independently of the global Sugar Labs.  Not all Labs may
need to structure themselves independently.  But in their case, theis
seemed to be the right way to go.

Sugar Labs Washington D.C  -
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs_DC - is well underway.  Jeff
Elkner has generously donated the money and offered to mentor a local
student on a sumer internship.  Based on the great history of Jeff,
Mike, and Luke, this looks like a project to keep on eye on.

Rochester Institute of Technology has been making steady progress.
Stephen Jacobs, Fred Grose, and Karlie are working to pull together
the resources of RIT, Hfoss.org, and Sugar Labs to create an official
university program.  Five interns from Stephen's open source class
last semester are on board for the summer.

I want to personally thank everyone involved in these local labs for
taking the risks and doing the extra work required in being the first.

david