Not sure why this discussion got bifurcated... here is the Marketing list thread.
-walter ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Walter Bender <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:54 AM Subject: Re: [Marketing] SoaS change in engineering direction: marketing questions To: Mel Chua <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Mel Chua <[email protected]> wrote: > SoaS engineering just proposed a major change-in-direction for the > upcoming (Mirabelle) release. See > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/soas/2010-March/000906.html Thanks for bringing this up with the lists. > Some questions for the Marketing group about this idea, based on > discussions with Sean today (Sean, are we missing anything?) > > 0. Sanity check - what do you think about this notion in general? We > apologize for the time crunch, but Beta Freeze is coming up on Tuesday, > March 23rd, and we need to have a clear notion of our forward path by then. The two options we discussed last night bear repeating: (1) Making Mirabelle a "Fedora Spin" vs (2) making Mirabelle a demo for teachers and parents and others wanting to try Sugar. #1 will presumably lead to more long-term stability and #2 will presumably lead to more short-term testing and feedback from end-users. But as we discussed last night, we could do #1 (and adhere to the Fedora deadline) and make a remix (when the activities are tested) to serve the purposes of #2. > 1. There was concern expressed that a SoaS image that doesn't have a lot > of Activities "out of the box" would be less optimal for demo purposes. > Is there a need for instructions on how people can make their own "demo > sticks" with more Activities (any Activities they want)? Can this need > continue to be filled by Strawberry and/or Blueberry until the next > release (in November 2010)? I think that "people" is a very small subset of our potential users. So we need to acknowledge this. The typical end user has difficulty even managing LiveUSBCreator, so to expect them to do a remix is not realistic. Asking them to use Strawberry and/or Blueberry is fine, but this will not help re user feedback on Mirabelle. Making a Mirabelle remix available soon after the Spin seems a more fruitful path. > > 2. How can SoaS engineering keep track of development releases in a way > that makes sense to us (for instance, this change would be a significant > departure from the past releases, and would therefore warrant a full > version number) while not interfering with Marketing's plans? (We > realize this release would not be marketed to users - it would be used > as a recruitment tool for contributors instead.) I leave this to marketing. But maybe the spin is 2.x and the remix is 3.0? or we just keep 3.0 for Cloudberry? > Feedback? Questions? Comments? Firestorm? > > We'll be tinkering further on this over the weekend - we can do another > kickstart on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so we have 3 drafts left to > figure this out with. Please join us (sdziallas & mchua on #sugar) and > ask questions if you have any, or join in and help if you have ideas on > how to improve this. > > Thanks, > > --Sebastian and Mel > _______________________________________________ > Marketing mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing > -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
