[Marketing] [SoaS] Generating a list of SoaS spins

[Mel Chua]

> I'm a bit confused by this
> (http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/soas/2009-September/000001.html)...

I think this refers to
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/soas/2009-September/000001.html
(archive linking sometimes goes funny) so I'll run with that
assumption for the moment.

> Sebastian's "spin" is Sugar on a Stick, and is likely to stay that way
> for some time, not least because of his active work.
> I am the first to welcome other Sugar liveUSB implementations (in
> particular to see how stick loading and use is simplified, made more
> reliable, etc), but at this point of time (and for some time, barring
> an unforeseen event) other implementations will play second fiddle to
> the main project.
> I would hope anyone else planning a Sugar liveUSB would contact us
> first concerning naming

And yep. I think that keeping track of other Sugar liveUSB
implementations is going to help this, because that way we can keep
track of naming. ("Sugar liveUSB implementations" is a much better
term than "SoaS spins," which was the term I was using because I
couldn't think of any others.)

I think my email should have read something like this: "We have a main
SoaS project, which is the Fedora-based work being done by Sebastian.
Let's make a list of other Sugar liveUSB implementations, so we can
keep track of what projects are going on in the liveUSB space, and
Marketing can make decisions appropriately."

Does this clear up the confusion? (It does for me - I'd also initially
thought we were going to come up with a second name for Sebastian's
SoaS work, to have something to call it in case Marketing decided to
use "SoaS" to refer to something else - but that's not necessary at
this point.)

(Sorry to clutter up the intarwebs with communications overhead. I
think we're mostly out of the woods on all this stuff, though, and
future liveUSB projects have a nice, neat place to file into now - the
category of "Sugar liveUSB projects" - instead of having the "what's
SoaS, who uses the name, etc?" debate all over again. I'll try to shut
up and switch into "Make Stuff Mode" now.)

--Mel