[IAEP] the SoaS term (was: Press release flurry planning...)

[Martin Dengler]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:28:09PM +0200, David Van Assche wrote:
> ["Sugar on a Stick"] should [...] describe the medium by which sugar
> is delivered (a usb stick) Nowhere is there any mention of something
> distro specific, nor should there be.

I'm amused that a few meme-weeks ago we had a discussion which implied
the other side: "Sugar on a Stick" meant a solution including not only
a specific distro's livecd .iso filesystem, but also a set of best
practices for running a Sugar-based curriculum, Sugar documentation
manuals, Sugar teacher training guidelines, XS-based (or -like) backup
solution, wireless network topology guidelines, and educational theory
suggestions.  Quite the other side of a spectrum from "some source
code from git.sugarlabs.org put on a USB stick with no partition
table", which I think you're saying is perfectly reasonable :).

> I am actually quite surprised that this discussion is coming up on a
> mailing list that is very open source based.  Taking ownership of a
> very generic term goes against the philosophy/politics of open
> source in general.

This has nothing to do with "open source" as defined by its creators:
http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd .  I think you're saying
"appropriating a general term to disenfranchise a constituency is
unfair and inconsistent with everyone's peer-imposed duty to take a
constructive, supportive, and inclusion-sensitive role in the
community."

We need inclusion but not at all cost.

> Regards,
> David Van Assche

Martin
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