[IAEP] [SLOBS] Q2 motion proposal

[Tomeu Vizoso]

arrgh, this was supposed to go to IAEP

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 14:47, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> We could even be more concise, e.g.:
>
> "Sugar Labs encourages all GNU/Linux distributions to package and
> distribute Sugar. SL Marketing may strategically decide to bias
> resources towards specific distributions in the interest of promoting
> Sugar more effectively."
>
> I like this because marketing strategy needs to be flexible, taking
> into account market conditions. Effective marketing brings change with
> surprise and opportunism - leaping into a breach. For example, netbook
> POST screens since recently now typically offer one-key access
> (bypassing BIOS config) to choose boot media; we could choose to
> highlight that, since it drastically lowers the barrier for nongeek
> teachers and parents. However, the day GNU/Linux distros have strong
> market share, such a strategy will no longer be necessary.
>
> Sugar is still a weak brand but we are building it up. Brand-building
> only happens when there is a crystal-clear message accepted by many
> people in contact. And in the case of IT, that barriers are lowered or
> eliminated. "Try Sugar: click here to download ISO, load USB stick
> with this tool, reboot" is far more effective promotion of Sugar to
> people who have never used GNU/Linux than "Try Sugar: backup your
> existing system, reformat/repartition, choose and install a GNU/Linux
> distro, use your distro's package manager to download, configure and
> install Sugar"
>
> Sean
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
>> I think the motion we passed suggests the impression that SL must be
>> biased towards SoaS at the organizational level. I'd like to clarify
>> that by rephrasing as follows:
>>
>>  Question 2: "Should SL be neutral about distributions containing
>>  Sugar, and refuse to endorse one over another?"
>>
>>  MOTION: Sugar Labs endorses Sugar multiple distributions based
>>  on availability of resources (i.e. volunteers) and technical
>>  merits. Hosting and resources will be offered on neutral ground.
>>  SL Marketing may strategically decide to bias resources towards
>>  specific distributions in the interest of promoting Sugar more
>>  effectively.
>>
>> Would SLOBs agree on this variation?
>>
>> --
>>   // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
>>  \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://sugarlabs.org/
>>
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