Correction: The "original" Sugar on a USB memory stick was made by Jani Monoses in December, 2007 based on xubuntu. (See http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2007-December/004033.html)
I guess it didn't make it far enough up Google for us to find at the time. david On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Jonas Smedegaard<[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > Hi David and everyone else, > > Thanks for the nice background and summary. I have but a single > comment: > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:10:32PM -0500, David Farning wrote: >>The questions that people are posing today are not easy >>to answer. If we intend to keep the abstraction barrier clean between >>distribution and upstream Sugar development, we should _not_ be >>devoting resources to SoaS. > > I fail to see how any resources would be lost by clearly separating work > on "Sugar" (the desktop) and "Sugar on a Stick" (the USB stick optimized > distribution containing Sugar). > > It seems to me that Sugarlabs is currently promoting SoaS as a Sugarlabs > effort but avoid the term "distribution". > > > A car is a car. A distribution is a distribution. > > > I suggest to instead promote SoaS as the distribution currently best > optimized for Sugar. > > Such change in promotion would encourage friendly competition among > distributions. It would also leave room for other distributions > promoting their alternative products as SoaS as well, if they feel that > it fits the description of "currently best optimized for Sugar" ;-) > > > > Kind regards, > > - Jonas > > - -- > * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt > * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ > > [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEAREDAAYFAko7RicACgkQn7DbMsAkQLi8xQCeLD/o4Rbur7sJH9s0QeVj+Rbx > xCQAnjmTc8B159ZA294RR07kihUc9bjy > =hFZW > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
