[SoaS] [Marketing] Sugar on a Stick Meeting Minutes (2010/06/14)

[Caroline Meeks]

I suggest a name that has a different first letter then the last name to
make it easier for dyslectics to differentiate.

Thanks

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We had previously discussed how a name shouldn't be obscure... I love
> > mango lassis as much as the next epicurean, but it is very obscure...
> > and liquid doesn't stay on a stick unless it is frozen :-/ and we
> > probably don't want a "frozen" connotation in what we are doing.
> >
> > I realize it's a bit of a tradition in FOSS projects to find creative,
> > uncommon and obscure names with a story. But, that's not marketing
> > that will help us.
> >
> > At the same time, our theme is "a treat for kids", which a mango lassi
> > certainly is (
> http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/sunday-heraldsun/kids-in-the-kitchen-mango-lassi/story-e6frf92f-1225798173709
> ).
> >
> > I would suggest that the name could work if there is a connection to
> > India we could make.
> >
> > I'll make one at the house for my son the next time he is in front of
> > Sugar... if we're going to break basic marketing rules, we may as well
> > have a focus group with 1 member
>
> Unfortunately most of the other options were quite obscure and
> generally hard to translate to other languages, or in some cases were
> local names for other fruits. We didn't have that many suggestions.
>
> Peter
>
>
> > On 6/15/10, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Walter Bender <
> walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>  > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Sebastian Dziallas <
> sebastian at when.com> wrote:
> >>  >> Thanks everybody for attending the SoaS meeting today. There are a
> >>  >> couple of things we discussed, as outlined in the minutes here [1].
> >>  >> I'm going to sum the points up quickly here, too.
> >>  >>
> >>  >> * The attendees voted for SoaS v.4 to be named Mangolassi. After
> >>  >> consideration, it was selected from a remaining list of four names
> >>  >> Lilikoi, Jambul, Mangolassi and Sequoyah. Mangolassi is therewith
> the
> >>  >> recommended codename for v.4. However, we're looking forward to
> >>  >> hearing thoughts from both the Marketing and Sugar on a Stick lists.
> >>  >> We acknowledged that the chosen name can be reconsidered depending
> on
> >>  >> feedback. The vote during the meeting was unanimous, though.
> >>  >
> >>  > Yum. Is it Mango lassi or Mangolassi? The color is going to be
> perhaps
> >>  > a bit more yellow than the Mirabelle color?
> >>
> >>
> >> I think technically the former, I don't believe there's any particular
> >>  reason for it not to be split, it was just the way I typed it when I
> >>  suggested it last night.
> >>
> >>
> >>  Peter
> >>
> >>
> >>  >> * The Revised Browse Page Feature (owner: Tom) [2] will be refined
> >>  >> until next week's meeting as part of the effort to integrate the
> SCK's
> >>  >> features.
> >>  >>
> >>  >> * The Sugar 0.90 Feature (owner: Peter) [3] has been approved by the
> >>  >> release team.
> >>  >>
> >>  >> * As part of the development test cycle discussion, Mel raised the
> >>  >> following points:
> >>  >>
> >>  >>       (1) An agreed-upon image each week for testers to attack (the
> >>  >> daily build on $datetime of each week, for instance)
> >>  >>       (2) An agreed-upon set of test cases for them to execute (iow,
> >>  >> the "test plan" thing we haven't had before)
> >>  >>       (3) An agreed-upon place and format for the results from
> >>  >> running those test cases to be reported to
> >>  >>       (4) An agreed-upon $datetime each week by which all test
> >>  >> results for that week will be submitted - so that the development
> team
> >>  >> has a chance to look at those results and revise the build before
> the
> >>  >> next test image goes out.
> >>  >>
> >>  >> * Peter will discuss the inclusion of maintained patches & scripts
> >>  >> into SoaS with Martin.
> >>  >>
> >>  >> * Mel requested that people continue to talk and think about what
> they
> >>  >> want to do with their SoaS time between now and our v4 release date
> in
> >>  >> October on the soas list - and Planet Sugar Labs.
> >>  >>
> >>  >> * Communication to activity developers and other parts of SL was
> >>  >> raised by John for discussion.
> >>  >>
> >>  >> Thanks again everyone for attending!
> >>  >>
> >>  >> --Sebastian
> >>  >>
> >>  >> [1]
> http://me.etin.gs/sugar-meeting/sugar-meeting.minutes.20100614_1502.html
> >>  >> [2]
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Revised_Browse_default-bookmarks.html
> >>  >> [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Sugar_0.90
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> >>  >
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