<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Credit </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Greg Dekoenigsberg</font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> for introducing some of us to Ralph Morelli, Heidi Ellis, and Trishan de Lanerolle, who have established the Humanitarian FOSS Project, </font><a href="http://www.hfoss.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: none;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">http://www.hfoss.org/</font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">, growing out of </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Trinity College, Wesleyan University, and Connecticut College in the USA.</font></span><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">David Farning suggested that we hold a conference call to share experiences about summer institutes, such as their </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><a href="http://www.hfoss.org/index.php?page=hfoss-summer-institute"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: none;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">http://www.hfoss.org/index.php?page=hfoss-summer-institute</font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">, and ou</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">r <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Summer_Program">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Summer_Program</a>.</font></span></span></span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><br></span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">Then, Kevin Cole posted a referral, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg04175.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg04175.html</a>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; line-height: 17px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">to Paul Flint's Barre Open Systems Institute, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><a href="http://www.bosivt.org/">http://www.bosivt.org/</a>, in Barre, Vermont USA.</span></span></span></span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">Karlie Robinson and I have been supporting Stephen Jacobs' Honors Seminar at the Rochester Institute of Technology, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/RIT_honors_seminar,_developing_for_the_OLPC_XO">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/RIT_honors_seminar,_developing_for_the_OLPC_XO</a>, the Math4 Project, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Math4Team">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Math4Team</a>, and Co-ops in the Rochester Sugar Summer Program.</span></span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">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 <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><a href="http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting.minutes.20090603_1310.html">http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting.minutes.20090603_1310.html</a>, from a short irc log, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><a href="http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting.log.20090603_1310.html">http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting.log.20090603_1310.html</a>.)</span></span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">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, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><a href="http://edudev.hfoss.org/index.php/Main_Page">http://edudev.hfoss.org/index.php/Main_Page</a>.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">Paul described his proposal for a small workshop in Barre, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><a href="http://docbox.flint.com:8081/maple">http://docbox.flint.com:8081/maple</a>, (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 <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs_DC">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs_DC</a> will be attending.</span></span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">In Rochester, we have a nascent Sugar Institute, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Summer_Program/Ideas">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Summer_Program/Ideas</a>, with 3 full-time Co-ops and other members of the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Rochester,_NY">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Rochester,_NY</a> grassroots special interest group, and we are open to more participants and guests willing to help build the program.</span></span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">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.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">Thank you for reading, and we hope you are inspired to join in some way. --Fred</font></div>