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

[Sean DALY]

I'm sorry, I must have my head in a sandbox, I somehow missed that
there is a OpenSuSE-based SoaS too.

I can say the following: we haven't felt the need to describe Sugar on
a Stick in marketing/PR materials as "Linux", or "Fedora", or anything
but "Sugar on a Stick". For a good reason, it's not important for
teachers who don't know about GNU/Linux, while the (relatively) few
who do can easily find out.

I'd be pleased if all the major distros joined the SoaS effort.

Remember two years ago, when a debate was framed by tech journalists
about OLPC "pushing Linux"? One of my objectives is to change that
frame, centering the discussion on Sugar's many merits.

thanks

Sean




On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:28 PM, David Van Assche<dvanassche at gmail.com> wrote:
> sorry ended up going to Sean only...
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Press release flurry planning
> (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)
> To: Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com>
>
>
> Soas = sugar on a stick.... whether that be on Fedora, Suse, debian,
> or mandriva... they are all the same thing, and I would argue SoaS is
> NOT a distro... just a dsitribution mechanism... for example, I call
> my opensuse based sugar on stick SoaS too, as that is technically what
> it is...
>
> David
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Sean DALY<sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I beg everyone's pardon, I was under the impression that SoaS is
>> Fedora-specific... are there plans to do versions based on other
>> distros?
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Bert Freudenberg<bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>>> (excluding IAEP from cc list)
>>>
>>> On 18.06.2009, at 19:45, David Van Assche wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anyway, the point is not to tie SoaS to one distro...
>>>
>>> Err, SoaS *is* a distro. It currently is based on Fedora, it might get
>>> based on something else in the unforeseeable future, but having a
>>> gazillion "SoaSes" isn't plan of anything I heard.
>>>
>>>> there are enough people willing to help for the different distros ,
>>>> and the more
>>>> markets the better right?
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, definitely, Sugar needs to be integrated well in many different
>>> distros. But that's independed of the SoaS effort.
>>>
>>> - Bert -
>>>
>>>
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