In my view, the mailing list should be called "SoaS-Fedora". That's the specific project the mailing list is intended to support, and we haven't reached consensus that "Sugar on a Stick" should always refer to the Fedora liveUSB project. Although that's clearly the case today and for the forseeable future, as stated previously I think the moniker should be used for the best liveUSB Sugar available, should an easier to load-install-configure-troubleshoot alternate present itself.
Sean. On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Mel Chua <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Sebastien's original question[2] is unanswered perhaps because it's >>> been deemed maybe-already-answered[3] or "peripheral" >> >> To the contrary, it seems to me that it remains unanswered only >> because it has been deemed a very important question, one worth formal >> consideration by a decision panel and the oversight board. > > Decision-making at SL is by consensus whenever possible > (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Governance#Decision_Panels). > One indication of how well our community successfully empowers people > to do the things they think will best help Sugar is how *rarely* we > need Authority From Above to swoop down and tell us How Things Shall > Be. Every time we clarify our thoughts and come to a conclusion > together, we make a decision, *and* we improve our ability to make > decisions in the future. The way we learn how to more rapidly and > clearly make decisions by consensus is by practicing > decision-making-by-consensus. It's a tough thing to learn, as is the > art of being a do-ocracy (with coding as one of many ways of Doing > Something). > > That's how I see it, anyway. > > Anyway, in the interests of Doing Stuff, I filed a mailing list > creation ticket (ownership set to bernie since he's the Infrastructure > lead) http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1419 to take care of 4.1, and to > give us a place to do the rest. > > The next thing I'll do (this evening) is to find the "What is a SL > Project?" thread, do a similar summary of where we stand / blockers, > and try to nudge 4.2 and 4.4 onwards (though it looks like Sebastian's > pretty much got things from here); it sounds like Marketing (led by > Sean, who's made his thoughts clear in this thread) should be driving > consensus on 4.3, or possibly counseling the Decision Panel on it if > the SLOBs announce/appoint a decision panel with a chair and a > deadline for making a specific choice. > > These are all suggestions that I happen to think make sense and plan > on moving forward on in the hopes that others will join me or > course-correct me. Pushback/patches welcome. ;-) > > --Mel > _______________________________________________ > 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
