[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

[Sean DALY]

Martin - we worked out Flavors at the marketing meetings
Sean


On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Martin Dengler<martin at martindengler.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 07:16:44PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote:
>> I agree with much of what has been said. Sugar on a Stick should not be
>> linked to any one distro.
>
> Laudable goal, but please don't underestimate how much work this is.
> I think Sebastian and David have an idea what's involved, but few
> others do.  So I don't think it's worth even discussing in practice
> (although I and others seem happy to debate the theory ad nauseam :)).
>
>> I thought we had decided to use Flavors? i.e. Sugar on a Stick Strawberry is
>> our current release and it is based on Fedora 11.
>
> I never got anything conclusive out of the IRC discussion in which
> flavors were mentioned, and haven't seen any mails about it.  "colors"
> is what was said thrice, AFAICS:
>
>> > >>> Nota: my idea would be for each version to change the Sugar logo
>> > >>> color too... potentially allowing troubleshooters to ask "what
>> > >>> color is the Sugar logo?" and match that to the version number.
>> > > I actually think changing the colors with each release is a pretty
>> > > awesome idea.
>
>> > So awesome that it may solve the controversial issue of naming
>> > releases: Banana-Chocolate Sugar, Cherry-Oak Sugar, etc
>
>> > >>> [Sean DALY]
>> > >
>> > > Eben
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Tomeu
>
> [This is re-formatted from
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-June/006184.html ]
>
>> Caroline Meeks
>
> Martin
>
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