arrgh, this was supposed to go to IAEP On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 14:47, Sean DALY <[email protected]> wrote: > We could even be more concise, e.g.: > > "Sugar Labs encourages all GNU/Linux distributions to package and > distribute Sugar. SL Marketing may strategically decide to bias > resources towards specific distributions in the interest of promoting > Sugar more effectively." > > I like this because marketing strategy needs to be flexible, taking > into account market conditions. Effective marketing brings change with > surprise and opportunism - leaping into a breach. For example, netbook > POST screens since recently now typically offer one-key access > (bypassing BIOS config) to choose boot media; we could choose to > highlight that, since it drastically lowers the barrier for nongeek > teachers and parents. However, the day GNU/Linux distros have strong > market share, such a strategy will no longer be necessary. > > Sugar is still a weak brand but we are building it up. Brand-building > only happens when there is a crystal-clear message accepted by many > people in contact. And in the case of IT, that barriers are lowered or > eliminated. "Try Sugar: click here to download ISO, load USB stick > with this tool, reboot" is far more effective promotion of Sugar to > people who have never used GNU/Linux than "Try Sugar: backup your > existing system, reformat/repartition, choose and install a GNU/Linux > distro, use your distro's package manager to download, configure and > install Sugar" > > Sean > > > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Bernie Innocenti <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think the motion we passed suggests the impression that SL must be >> biased towards SoaS at the organizational level. I'd like to clarify >> that by rephrasing as follows: >> >> Question 2: "Should SL be neutral about distributions containing >> Sugar, and refuse to endorse one over another?" >> >> MOTION: Sugar Labs endorses Sugar multiple distributions based >> on availability of resources (i.e. volunteers) and technical >> merits. Hosting and resources will be offered on neutral ground. >> SL Marketing may strategically decide to bias resources towards >> specific distributions in the interest of promoting Sugar more >> effectively. >> >> Would SLOBs agree on this variation? >> >> -- >> // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ >> \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SLOBs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/slobs >> > _______________________________________________ > SLOBs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/slobs >
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