On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 5:17 PM, David Farning <dfarn...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: > On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Edward Cherlin <echer...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 8:43 AM, David Farning <dfarn...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: >>> Hey all, >>> >>> Is anyone interested in setting up a Sugar Labs Flophouse next summer? >>> I 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. So 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. I 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).
There is much know-how on organizing places like that in coworking communities. This mailing list, for example, is nice: http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en 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. http://www.naturalmath.com social math site http://groups.google.com/group/naturalmath our email group http://www.phenixsolutions.com empowering our innovations _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
