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. --Fred
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