[SoaS] SoaS decision panel: Do we ignore/protest two week deadline?/Starting deliberations?

[Caroline Meeks]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Martin Dengler <martin at martindengler.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 03:37:59AM -0400, Samuel Klein wrote:
> > On timing: 2 weeks is a recommendation, but a deadline is not a bad
> > thing.  Rather than debate it, why don't we plan to draft a statement
> > this week.
>
> The draft is http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Decision_panels/SOAS#Report
> .
>
> Please can someone else help with it - right now a few people have put
> their names down next to votes, but nobody's gone further than my
> skeleton draft.
>
> > > 1. "Should Sugar Labs be a GNU/Linux distributor, rather than just an
> > > upstream producing Sugar releases?"
> > >
> > > 2.  "Should SL be neutral about distributions containing Sugar, and
> > > refuse to endorse one over another?"
> > >
> > > 3. "Should 'Sugar on a Stick' be a phrase that SL asks its community to
> > > avoid using unless they refer to the SoaS-Fedora distribution?"
> [...]
> > #1 is a question of whether SL should channel development effort into
> > producing distributions.
>
> Substitute "development" with "significant" and I agree this is a good
> characterisation.
>
> > #2 is a question of whether SL should be neutral in its promotional
> > materials.
>
> Not just that - its infrastructure effort and resource choices, as
> well as many other non-artifact-generating activities, like conference
> participation, deployment pitches ("here's our software and our CD"
> vs. "here's our software and you have to get someone else to give you
> a CD") .  For example, it makes sense to spend infrastructure team
> time to support an endorsed distro with a bugtracker.  It makes less
> sense to spend infrastructure team time to support every distro that
> ships Sugar.
>
> > #3 is about encouraging the community to avoid confusion in naming
>
> Yes.
>
> > [...] which can be done neutrally.
>
> Can be done neutrally but is hard to do.  Witness the flamewar about
> SoaS naming in June:
>
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-June/006509.html
>
> It's hard to be neutral unless the confused things come into existence
> roughly concurrently.  For example, if SL were to ask the owners of
> sugaronastick.com, which weren't distributing SoaS-Fedora, to stop
> using "Sugar on a Stick", the (long-time) prior marketing of
>

I assume this is a hypothetical. SugaronaStick.com is distributing Fedora
and its is the same as what I'm using in the GPA except for the network
settings and which activities are preloaded and stared.


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