[Sugar-devel] Soas name

[Samuel Klein]

Well, if you mainly want to appeal to / capture memeshare from people
with a serious academic/linguistic/coding bent, you can be as obscure
as you want.  Make each name an anagram of a metaphor of something
sugary, followed by the one's digit of the year in which the project
was founded.

Or what about 'SugarStick'  ?

SJ

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:
> To state my position more generally, I believe we cannot use metaphorical
> references to associate our brands with each other.  It defeats the whole
> purpose of a unified brand.
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> To the contrary, the words Sugar on a Stick actually mean something.
>> Actually they mean two things:  Sugar environment on a USB stick in the
>> context of software, and a kind of candy in the context of food.
>>
>> Lollipop or Rock Candy means nothing in the context of software unless you
>> *know* you are also in the context of Sugar environments.  .
>>
>> I think that if we are producing an "Official" Sugar distribution that is
>> intended to run on XOs, PCs, USB sticks, emulators, etc. perhaps SoaS is a
>> little too specific.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Wade
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Luke Faraone <luke at faraone.cc> wrote:
>>>
>>> Or "rock candy" :)
>>>
>>> -lf
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Mitch Bradley <wmb at firmworks.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The name "Soas" lacks pizazz.  How about "lollipop"?  After all, a
>>>> lollipop is just ..
>>>
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