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 _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
