[SoaS] updating the draft decision panel report

[Samuel Klein]

To rephrase what Caryl is saying:

* We need a simple, general term to describe Sugar distributions that run on
USB or SD media. This term should describe Trisquel, SOAS-Fedora, and
anything else you can think of.

* Right now, "sugar on a stick" perhaps without caps, seems like a natural
way to describe this [save for the fact that SD cards aren't called sticks
-sj :) ]

* If we reserve "sugar on a stick" then each distro may start using its own
custom name, without a shared common name, and we will end up with dozens of
very dissimilar names, which will be confusing to teachers

So, think in terms of the page of "Sugar distributions on external media".
What short, memorable name can be given to that page?   Live Sugar?
Personal? Portable?  This common name should be as memorable and
recognizable to non-technical users as possible.

SJ

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Martin Dengler <martin at martindengler.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 11:08:22PM -0800, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
>
> I'm having trouble squaring this with your earlier
> statement[1]. Aren't you saying both:
>
> > > [let's allow lots of "Sugar On A Stick" products]
>
> and[2]:
>
> > [too many names are confusing]
>
> Please can you explain how to reconcile both [1] and [2].
>
> > Caryl
>
> Martin
>
> 1.
> > > 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.
>
> 2.
> > Having many different names for different versions of Sugar on a usb
> > stick will only confuse them.
>
>
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