Re: [Sugar-devel] Soas name

2009-01-31 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com wrote: To the contrary, the words Sugar on a Stick actually mean something. Actually they mean two things: Sugar environment on a USB stick in the context of software, and a kind of candy in the context of food. +1 I've

Re: [Sugar-devel] Soas name

2009-01-28 Thread Luke Faraone
Or rock candy :) -lf On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Mitch Bradley w...@firmworks.com wrote: The name Soas lacks pizazz. How about lollipop? After all, a lollipop is just .. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] Soas name

2009-01-28 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Agree with Mitch about Soas, but I like more Luke's suggestion. Regards, Tomeu On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 18:38, Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc wrote: Or rock candy :) -lf On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Mitch Bradley w...@firmworks.com wrote: The name Soas lacks pizazz. How about

Re: [Sugar-devel] Soas name

2009-01-28 Thread Wade Brainerd
To the contrary, the words Sugar on a Stick actually mean something. Actually they mean two things: Sugar environment on a USB stick in the context of software, and a kind of candy in the context of food. Lollipop or Rock Candy means nothing in the context of software unless you *know* you are

Re: [Sugar-devel] Soas name

2009-01-28 Thread Wade Brainerd
To state my position more generally, I believe we cannot use metaphorical references to associate our brands with each other. It defeats the whole purpose of a unified brand. On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com wrote: To the contrary, the words Sugar on a Stick

Re: [Sugar-devel] Soas name

2009-01-28 Thread Luke Faraone
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Mitch Bradley w...@firmworks.com wrote: Rock candy is sugar on a string. O RLY? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Rock_Candy.jpg :) -- Luke Faraone http://luke.faraone.cc ___ Sugar-devel mailing

Re: [Sugar-devel] Soas name

2009-01-28 Thread David Farning
So is cotton candy:) On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Mitch Bradley w...@firmworks.com wrote: Rock candy is sugar on a string. Lollipops are sugar on a stick. Clearly you guys didn't spend enough of your youth trying to rot your teeth away. ___

Re: [Sugar-devel] Soas name

2009-01-28 Thread Luke Faraone
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Mitch Bradley w...@firmworks.com wrote: Rock candy is sugar on a string. Hm... maybe we'll call our LTSP setup that? :P -- Luke Faraone http://luke.faraone.cc ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

Re: [Sugar-devel] Soas name

2009-01-28 Thread Samuel Klein
Well, if you mainly want to appeal to / capture memeshare from people with a serious academic/linguistic/coding bent, you can be as obscure as you want. Make each name an anagram of a metaphor of something sugary, followed by the one's digit of the year in which the project was founded. Or what