On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:28:09PM +0200, David Van Assche wrote: > ["Sugar on a Stick"] should [...] describe the medium by which sugar > is delivered (a usb stick) Nowhere is there any mention of something > distro specific, nor should there be.
I'm amused that a few meme-weeks ago we had a discussion which implied the other side: "Sugar on a Stick" meant a solution including not only a specific distro's livecd .iso filesystem, but also a set of best practices for running a Sugar-based curriculum, Sugar documentation manuals, Sugar teacher training guidelines, XS-based (or -like) backup solution, wireless network topology guidelines, and educational theory suggestions. Quite the other side of a spectrum from "some source code from git.sugarlabs.org put on a USB stick with no partition table", which I think you're saying is perfectly reasonable :). > I am actually quite surprised that this discussion is coming up on a > mailing list that is very open source based. Taking ownership of a > very generic term goes against the philosophy/politics of open > source in general. This has nothing to do with "open source" as defined by its creators: http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd . I think you're saying "appropriating a general term to disenfranchise a constituency is unfair and inconsistent with everyone's peer-imposed duty to take a constructive, supportive, and inclusion-sensitive role in the community." We need inclusion but not at all cost. > Regards, > David Van Assche Martin
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