Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 18.06.2009, at 20:28, David Van Assche wrote: Soas = sugar on a stick whether that be on Fedora, Suse, debian, or mandriva... they are all the same thing, and I would argue SoaS is NOT a distro... just a dsitribution mechanism... for example, I call my opensuse based sugar on stick

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
Well, that ship sailed quite a while ago. I find it hard to believe that you missed the significant publicity surrounding Sugar being available on openSUSE in ALL formats (cd/dvd/usb/vm appliance) as I've been touting that for at least 2 months now. In fact the collaboration sessions that have

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
This is just a naming problem. Sugar on a Stick is a generic descriptive phrase that has been repurposed as a proper noun. This inevitably leads to confusion, because the two meanings do not agree. I encourage the developers of the Fedora-derived image to adopt a new name, to solve this

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
right, otherwise, imagine I call the openSUSE cd version SoaC, Sugar on a CD or even SoaVM Sugar on a Virtual Machine am I the only one who see the broken logic here? David Van assche On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartzbmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: This is just a naming

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread James Zaki
to have a habit of stating the obvious. James /my2cents Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:53:48 +0200 From: Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC) To: Sugar-dev Devel sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
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Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release        flurry  planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC) To: Sugar-dev Devel sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org Cc: Marketing market...@lists.sugarlabs.org ,  IAEP List        i...@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread Caroline Meeks
: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:53:48 +0200 From: Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC) To: Sugar-dev Devel sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org Cc: Marketing market

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread Martin Dengler
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 07:16:44PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: I agree with much of what has been said. Sugar on a Stick should not be linked to any one distro. Laudable goal, but please don't underestimate how much work this is. I think Sebastian and David have an idea what's involved, but

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread Sean DALY
Martin - we worked out Flavors at the marketing meetings Sean On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Martin Denglermar...@martindengler.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 07:16:44PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: I agree with much of what has been said. Sugar on a Stick should not be linked to any

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread Martin Dengler
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 01:50:00AM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: Martin - we worked out Flavors at the marketing meetings Ok. It'd be nice if there was a mail sometime stating that. I guess your one a few minutes ago was that mail. Sean Martin pgpKArskHMzKK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread Sean DALY
I'm having difficulty with this launch (which was originally planned for three months from now :-) We're making it, but it's a pressure situation... On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Martin Denglermar...@martindengler.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 01:50:00AM +0200, Sean DALY wrote:

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread Martin Dengler
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 02:17:09AM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: I'm having difficulty with this launch (which was originally planned for three months from now :-) We're making it, but it's a pressure situation... It'd be nice was meant without its usual sarcastic implication, sorry. I did mean I