Daniel Drake wrote: > 2009/9/16 Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]>: > >> I cannot speak for Sebastian nor the whole SoaS community, but >> something like making SoaS an official project in SLs could go a long >> way. This would mean saying that "Sugar on a Stick" is a project with >> this vision, this mission, this roadmap, this governance model, etc. >> > > Yes, that makes sense. Sebastian, if it were made a project would that > clear up your doubts? > This isn't giving SoaS any special treatment -- any project that comes > close to the calibre of soas is obviously candidate to become > recognised as an official project. > +1 >> Also discussing like Sean has made the possibility of an hypothetical >> switch to another distro is very good I think. Better have this on the >> table than letting it be hidden in the backs of our minds. >> > > I don't think it would be fair to take over the name of another > project. If another distro project comes along, I feel that it should > pick its own name. And is the name really that important? As an > example, the existing OLPC distros never really had a name. I call > them e.g. "OLPC OS 8.2.0" but there doesn't seem to be any consensus, > and it hasn't been a hinderance in adoption. The users don't really > get to see the bits that are underneath, so they only refer to "Sugar" > anyway. > > Daniel > and get very confused in the process. I have at least one example, the Heart Rate Monitor, that requires some older dependencies no longer supported, and I find it a challenge to figure out what distro version I have...
I am all for having simple, catchy names that non-geeks can enjoy and feel kinship with > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
