Martin Dengler wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:12:46PM -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: >> Sebastian Dziallas wrote: >>> So my vision is that this SoaS is actually *the* way of >>> distributing Sugar, as a SL product. If Sugar Labs doesn't think >>> so, I'd have preferred to be informed much earlier. >> >> I don't think you're likely to find much support for that vision as >> phrased. > > De jure (or de populum), perhaps, but not de facto. Witness the > marketing effort around SoaS (thanks Sean et. al.). Witness the > non-wiki sugarlabs.org saying that to "try sugar" use "our ... Sugar > on a Stick". > > David and the vision page on the wiki say: > > "The mission of Sugar Labs® is to produce, _distribute_ [emphasis > mine], and support the use of the Sugar learning platform" > > ...which while "distribute" may of course mean Sucrose/Fructose rather > than Starch, SLOBs has left this intentionally ambiguous on this and > has put much effort into marketing SoaS. > > In Walter's 2009-03-17 email, he mentioned this under the heading of > "What are our short- and long-term (measurable) goals?" > > "Sugar on a Stick v1.0, will be launched in 2009 as well." > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Current_Events/Archive/2009-03-17 > > Hopefully this email thread can settle these questions officially, > once and for all: > > 1) Is SugarLabs going to _itself_ distribute a Linux distribution? > > 2) If so, is it to be based on Sebastien's Sugar-on-a-Stick work at > http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/soas/repos/mainline ? > > If these questions are not finally answered, SL is doing Sebastien a > disservice, in my mind. They're simple questions and have simple > answers (though far-reaching consequences), so only the will is > lacking, it seems.
I would really love to see those questions answered, finally. >> SoaS is a great way to distribute Sugar, but it will certainly never be >> "*the* way", as long as all these other people are around, working hard on >> other distribution mechanisms. > > I interpreted Sebastien's statement as something like: > > "[My vision is that] Sugar-on-a-Stick is the the way that SugarLabs > distributes Sugar directly to "Learners". Many other ways exist using > the big Linux distributions and the extraordinary efforts of many > people. But SoaS is how SugarLabs does it directly." And that's exactly how it was meant. Thanks, Martin! :) > I don't speak for him, though, or pretend to know his thinking on this > subject. > > Martin --Sebastian _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
