<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> 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.<br><br>Caryl <br>(one who remembers and longs for the days when free, open source software really was free and open source...in the early 1980s).<br><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 19:52:46 -0400<br>From: meta.sj@gmail.com<br>To: tabitha@hrdnz.com<br>CC: soas@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>Subject: Re: [SoaS] updating the draft decision panel report<br><br>On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Tabitha Roder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tabitha@hrdnz.com">tabitha@hrdnz.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="ecxgmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex;"> If we are leaning towards:<br> Yes. Sugar on a Stick is the central pillar of our marketing strategy.<br> It's not trademarked, but should be. SL does not want to confuse its<br> users and a light touch like this is all that's needed.<br> <br> Can I suggest we start talking about what method we recommend others<br> use to define other Sugar on a USB naming conventions?  This will help<br> those who create other distributions to know what to do if we<br> publicise that "Sugar on a Stick" is only to be used for the Sugarlabs<br> SoaS-Fedora distributions.<br> <br></blockquote><div><br>Three people so far have weighed in to say that SoaS only means 'SoaS-Fedora' today, but could mean something else in the future.  It sounds to me like we are leaning towards consensus on a reworded statement:<br> <br>"Sugar on a Stick" or "SoaS" is only to be used for a specific Sugarlabs project and its products.  [Currently, for example, the SoaS project is only producing SoaS-Fedora.]  Independent projects should use names that are not confusingly similar. "<br> <br>Is that accurate?<br> <br></div><br><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex;">When people ask for help, they need to know what they have.<br> <font color="#888888"><br> Tabitha<br></font></blockquote><div><br>Yes, this aspect does not sound like a marketing question.   SJ<br></div></div> </body> </html>