[IAEP] Soas backstory and summary was Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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Hi David and everyone else,

Thanks for the nice background and summary.  I have but a single 
comment:

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:10:32PM -0500, David Farning wrote:
>The questions that people are posing today are not easy
>to answer.  If we intend to keep the abstraction barrier clean between
>distribution and upstream Sugar development, we should _not_ be
>devoting resources to SoaS.

I fail to see how any resources would be lost by clearly separating work 
on "Sugar" (the desktop) and "Sugar on a Stick" (the USB stick optimized 
distribution containing Sugar).

It seems to me that Sugarlabs is currently promoting SoaS as a Sugarlabs 
effort but avoid the term "distribution".


   A car is a car.  A distribution is a distribution.


I suggest to instead promote SoaS as the distribution currently best 
optimized for Sugar.

Such change in promotion would encourage friendly competition among 
distributions.  It would also leave room for other distributions 
promoting their alternative products as SoaS as well, if they feel that 
it fits the description of "currently best optimized for Sugar" ;-)



Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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