Just FYI the Gulf Coast in summer is extremely hot and humid. <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Maria Droujkova <<a href="mailto:droujkova@gmail.com">droujkova@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 5:17 PM, David Farning <<a href="mailto:dfarning@sugarlabs.org">dfarning@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote: > On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Edward Cherlin <<a href="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com">echerlin@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 8:43 AM, David Farning <<a href="mailto:dfarning@sugarlabs.org">dfarning@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote: >>> Hey all, >>> >>> Is anyone interested in setting up a Sugar Labs Flophouse next summer? >>> 狢 have been impresses with the quality of applicants interested in >>> gsoc and independent internships. >> >> If you set it up to run year round I would move in in a heartbeat and >> offer seminars. >> >> Can we consider doing this in a target country? Ghana would work well for me. > > I haven't thought this through very far yet. 䒷o the following might > make less sense than I usually make. > > Within the next couple of years, I would like to start a Sugar > institute to foster the Sugar community. 狢 am thinking of something > with work and living space for about 20 people to come together to > work together for brief periods (a couple of weeks to a couple of > months). </div>There is much know-how on organizing places like that in coworking communities. This mailing list, for example, is nice: <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en</a> There are economic models, frequently asked questions, examples of many existing spaces and so on. A transitional possibility to your Institute can be contacting existing coworking spaces for events like "Sugar Month @ YourCoworkingSpace" across the world. -- Cheers, MariaD Make math your own, to make your own math. <a href="http://www.naturalmath.com" target="_blank">http://www.naturalmath.com</a> social math site <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/naturalmath" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/naturalmath</a> our email group <a href="http://www.phenixsolutions.com" target="_blank">http://www.phenixsolutions.com</a> empowering our innovations <div><div></div><div class="h5">_______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>