Sugar Summer Program

See http://www.mail-archive.com/iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg04163.html for background and reference.

Sugar Institute Vision

• Fill a house with design students, education students, and computer science students all coming together to work on Sugar.
• 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).
• It could be used for training deployment teams, some weeks for hackers to work together, some weeks....
• It could become a place for deployments and deployers to hire Sugar developers and designers for specific tasks.
• Flophouse, or SugarShack, would be a precursor to Institute to see if this is something that is useful, cost effective, and manageable.
• Sugar Labs would be technical sponsor

RIT FOSS Co-op Vision

Rochester Institute of Technology, RIT, Rochester, NY, USA

• Modeled after http://www.hfoss.org/index.php?page=hfoss-summer-institute
• Support students such as those in olpc:RIT honors seminar, developing for the OLPC XO working on Math4Team/RIT who want to continue or earn required RIT Co-op credits.
• 350-hour work commitment by students per term.
• External to RIT Co-op program Supervisor(s) to oversee and grade the student work.
• Prefer that students locate in Rochester, NY rather than disperse. (distance co-ops an option)
• Paid positions when funding is available, unpaid otherwise (Student's must commit to documenting their work before leaving for a paid position).

Opportunity

• Serve both visions in a co-sponsored, 2009 Sugar Summer Co-op
• A hybrid operation with RIT students and other interested parties would be possible.
• Find financial sponsors.

  Sugar Labs not currently able to provide financial support except through community donations.

  • optionally, associate with H-FOSS.
  • self-sponsorship where possible
• Use RIT Resources
  • Laboratory, office, and meeting spaces
  • Faculty for special projects
  • optionally: campus housing for room and board (One could get housing and a full meal plan at RIT for something like $2500-$3500 for the summer.)
• Use Rochester/Upstate New York Resources
  • Rochester, NY Special Interest Group and http://www.lugor.org/.
  • Local schools, colleges, and universities
  • Other local institutions...
  • Local & Regional resources for the social calendar.
• Room and Board
  • optionally: RIT campus housing for room and board
  • optionally: solicit Sponsor homes, like for exchange students, for those that might prefer or can't afford the other options.
    • a community support option for interested families
    • perhaps sponsors could invite appropriately-sized groups to summer cottages or vacation homes for reflective weekends or short, get-away periods.
  • Rochester local housing: $900-1,000 for a 3 bedroom house $1400-1600 for a four, etc.

Regional Institutes

• Rochester, NY, USA (see above)
• Barre, VT, USA with Paul Flint, http://www.mail-archive.com/iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg04175.html