[SoaS] updating the draft decision panel report

[Caryl Bigenho]

Hi... I guess I've become the minority.  I still believe that the name "Sugar On A Stick" should be allowed for all distributions of Sugar on a usb stick or even a live CD.  Sugar Labs can control and identify their special builds in a special way... "SoaS by SugarLabs" or whatever, but the term has already become so generic that trying to make it exclusive at this point seems to be a waste of time and energy.

Caryl 
(one who remembers and longs for the days when free, open source software really was free and open source...in the early 1980s).
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 19:52:46 -0400
From: meta.sj at gmail.com
To: tabitha at hrdnz.com
CC: soas at lists.sugarlabs.org
Subject: Re: [SoaS] updating the draft decision panel report

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Tabitha Roder <tabitha at hrdnz.com> wrote:
 
If we are leaning towards:

Yes. Sugar on a Stick is the central pillar of our marketing strategy.

It's not trademarked, but should be. SL does not want to confuse its

users and a light touch like this is all that's needed.



Can I suggest we start talking about what method we recommend others

use to define other Sugar on a USB naming conventions?  This will help

those who create other distributions to know what to do if we

publicise that "Sugar on a Stick" is only to be used for the Sugarlabs

SoaS-Fedora distributions.



Three people so far have weighed in to say that SoaS only means 'SoaS-Fedora' today, but could mean something else in the future.  It sounds to me like we are leaning towards consensus on a reworded statement:


"Sugar on a Stick" or "SoaS" is only to be used for a specific Sugarlabs project and its products.  [Currently, for example, the SoaS project is only producing SoaS-Fedora.]  Independent projects should use names that are not confusingly similar. "


Is that accurate?
 

When people ask for help, they need to know what they have.




Tabitha

Yes, this aspect does not sound like a marketing question.   SJ
 		 	   		  
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