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

[Sean DALY]

Install to hard drive or netbook SSD is certainly on my wish list...
as a part of the break-install-barrier solution of testing/trying with
Sugar on a Stick, then assuring better reliability, performance, etc.

That said, we're not there yet and I don't see it as a priority in the
goal of getting teachers to hear about Sugar and try it. Although the
option will be useful, the message will be muddled - we have been and
will be promoting Sugar on a Stick as risk-free - not touching the
hard disk and presenting no danger to currently installed OS and data
- as well as providing a portable environment for use on more than one
computer (e.g. school & home).

An install will likely have a name other than Sugar on a Stick (while
keeping the ice cream analogy), but that's a marketing issue, I think
we can cross that bridge when we get to it.

Sean




On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Martin Dengler
<martin at martindengler.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 02:33:15PM -0700, Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
>>
>>
>> Martin Dengler wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 01:55:46PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi...
>>>>
>>>> OK, let's be playful for a minute... how about "Sugar Pies" (Live
>>>> CDs) and Sugar Wafers (SD cards) for starters? You could have
>>>> "Strawberry Pie" and "Blueberry Wafers" etc!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, though "Sugar Pie" makes me think of "cow pie"...but the problem
>>> is that we're not going to have different images for SD cards vs. USB
>>> sticks, so I guess - although the names are amusing :) - I still don't
>>> see a good umbrella term to explain what we're trying to limit this
>>> list to.  Only the terrible "Sugar-centric distribution" seems to
>>> capture what people think this list should be for[1].
>>>
>>>
>> Why not "Portable  Sugar-Desktop"
>
> ...because some have called for an "install to hard drive" option, at
> which point what's installed to hard drive is hard to call "live" or
> "portable".
>
> Is a HD install of a SoaS-Strawberry USB image "SoaS"?  Is it a
> "Portable Sugar-Desktop"?  If not, what is it?
>
>
>> Other distributions have called it:
>>
>>    * openSUSE-Sugar-Live (dd to USB/SD)
>>    * openSUSE-Edu-live-Li-f-e (Server) with Sugar( dd to 8GB USB/SD)
>>    * F11-Live-Edu (sh script)
>>    * Trisquel-Edu (Live USB)
>>    * Trisquel-Sugar (Announced today)
>>    * F12(rawhide)education i386xxxxx (dd to USB/SD)
>>    * Sugar Tree  "Strawberry Soas" Jabber:ss.sugaronastick.com
>
> Cool list, thanks.  It'd be cool if you could add it to mel's wiki page
> (which I can't find right now, sorry :( ).
>
>>>> Caryl
>>>>
>>>
>>> Martin
>>
>> Tom Gilliard
>
> Martin
>
>
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