To David Farning, best regards from Santiago, Chile. I'd like to officially nominate Chile as a Local Lab: <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs_Chile" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs_Chile</a> We, Educalibre (<a href="http://www.educalibre.cl/" target="_blank">http://www.educalibre.cl</a>), were hoping to be ready as a formalized NGO, but the process will not end before 2 or 3 months (it started August 2008). It woud be best to sign the MOU once we are formalized completely. But things are starting to work out with Sugar in Chile. We are starting a pilot in Punta Arenas, where the Sugar on a Stick will be running over Classmate 1, and another pilot is on it's way in Huechuraba County, outside of Santiago. We have the support of interesting allies such as initiatives related to school innovation through ICTs, universities (inlcuiding a educational university), Intel (who's shown great interest and commitment). This year, Classmate 1 Mobile Labs (on a cart) were distrubuted to public schools oriented to 3rd graders, and SoaS+Classmate is seen as a great alternative. We are also have close contact with Sugar Labs Colombia, who are also starting to roll out pilots, and we've commited to share and build collaborately (we are starting to design a course oriented to teacher profesiona development, and have a basic Sugar course and agenda as well). All of the above has pushed to finaly run Sugar Labs Chile. Hope to hear from you soon, werner