[SoaS] updating the draft decision panel report

[Samuel Klein]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:

> The marketing list has again disappeared, I have added it back, again.
>
> Weird, thanks.


> This seems reasonable, but all it would do is compromise Sugar on a
> Stick as a meaningful name.


Any other suggestion for a generic name for the class of external-media
distributions would be fine.  Sebastian likes "Sugar Live Media" which works
for me.

> The most generic term for what Sugar on a Stick is "a liveUSB version
> of Sugar".

This seems somewhat confusing to me, since as a newbie I wouldn't know what
'liveUSB' means and I might be using an SD card.

SJ



On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi...
>
> It's sort of like root beer...
>
> You can buy A&W or Barq's or other private labels... or make your own. It
is
> still "root beer."
>
> Sugar on a Stick is really exactly what it says, Sugar running on a usb
> stick. It is a very descriptive label.  To call other distributions of
Sugar
> on a usb stick something else would be confusing. However, calling it say,
> "Blueberry Sugar on a Stick by Sugar Labs" or "Orange Sugar on a Stick by
> Skunk Works" would distinguish the developer and variety without being
> confusing and still tell folks what it is.
>
> Then they could tell one another... "get the Blueberry by SugarLabs, it's
> much better than Skunk Works' Orange."
>
> Remember your, generally, technologically  innocent (not all of them)
> intended end user.
>
> Caryl
>
>
>
>> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 12:31:33 +0000
>> From: martin at martindengler.com
>> To: cbigenho at hotmail.com
>> CC: dmc.sugar at filteredperception.org; tabitha at hrdnz.com;
>> soas at lists.sugarlabs.org
>> Subject: Re: [SoaS] updating the draft decision panel report
>>
>> 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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