[IAEP] OversightBoard/Minutes/Log-2008-08-01-follow up

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

David Farning wrote:
> WRT--second server--  We have had an offer to host some of our
> infrastucture at OSL[1].  Is this something we want to follow up on?
>   

Ivan, Bernie, Walter, what do you think? (I'm not sure if we have a plan 
for the second server hosting/sponsoring yet).

> WRT--trade marks--  There appear to be two different reasons for
> registering and defending trademarks.  1.  We want to be able to
> 'project' the Sugar brand by encouraging 'friends' to share and promote
> our brand as a measure of quality.  2.  We want to be able to defend our
> brand against enemies who would hijack the brand by (a) misusing the
> name or (b) holding the name hostage.
>
> At this point, we have no brand to defend;(  99% of the world knows
> Sugar as the GUI for OLPC.  The general consensus of Open Source
> projects is that registering a trademark is not worth the time or effort
> at this point in a projects life cycle.  We should revisit the issue
> again in six months.
>   

I tend to agree but I'm not a lawyer :)

> WRT--Architect--  Designing the Sugar is not the problem.  The problem
> is deciding on the designer.
>
> One approach is the BDFL.  But, I doubt that we could decide on a BD.
> Another approach is the Apache consensus model[2].  We need to give the
> oversight board the final authority and responsibility to plan Sugar's
> future.
>
> The catch here will be selecting the initial oversight board to insure
> everyone's interest is represented.  A possibility is 2 OLPC
> representatives, 2 RedHat representatives, 2 Sugar Labs representatives,
> and 1 neutral third party.  Please note this is just a brainstorm.
>   

I don't think we need formal processes. We do very little design 
experimentation, writing and discussion. I'd start by figuring out how 
to devote more time to these tasks.

> WRT--LiveCD--  SkoleLinux has a live cd.  I believe there was an attempt
> to put Sugar on a live ubuntu variant.  I think the developer chose
> Xubuntu, for space reasons, and then hacked the installer to load Sugar
> as the default.
>
> The various derivative teams are getting _very_good_ at creating custom
> spins and liveCDs.  If we can help get stable .deb and .rpm packages the
> spins will follow shortly.     
>   

Yeah, maintaining good packages is the key issue here. Ubuntu seem to be 
doing a pretty good work there... We need to get this working well for 
Fedora too. We have been trying to do so, but unfortunately the core 
team is swamped by many other things.

Marco