On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Martin Dengler <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 03:37:59AM -0400, Samuel Klein wrote: > > On timing: 2 weeks is a recommendation, but a deadline is not a bad > > thing. Rather than debate it, why don't we plan to draft a statement > > this week. > > The draft is http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Decision_panels/SOAS#Report > . > > Please can someone else help with it - right now a few people have put > their names down next to votes, but nobody's gone further than my > skeleton draft. > > > > 1. "Should Sugar Labs be a GNU/Linux distributor, rather than just an > > > upstream producing Sugar releases?" > > > > > > 2. "Should SL be neutral about distributions containing Sugar, and > > > refuse to endorse one over another?" > > > > > > 3. "Should 'Sugar on a Stick' be a phrase that SL asks its community to > > > avoid using unless they refer to the SoaS-Fedora distribution?" > [...] > > #1 is a question of whether SL should channel development effort into > > producing distributions. > > Substitute "development" with "significant" and I agree this is a good > characterisation. > > > #2 is a question of whether SL should be neutral in its promotional > > materials. > > Not just that - its infrastructure effort and resource choices, as > well as many other non-artifact-generating activities, like conference > participation, deployment pitches ("here's our software and our CD" > vs. "here's our software and you have to get someone else to give you > a CD") . For example, it makes sense to spend infrastructure team > time to support an endorsed distro with a bugtracker. It makes less > sense to spend infrastructure team time to support every distro that > ships Sugar. > > > #3 is about encouraging the community to avoid confusion in naming > > Yes. > > > [...] which can be done neutrally. > > Can be done neutrally but is hard to do. Witness the flamewar about > SoaS naming in June: > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-June/006509.html > > It's hard to be neutral unless the confused things come into existence > roughly concurrently. For example, if SL were to ask the owners of > sugaronastick.com, which weren't distributing SoaS-Fedora, to stop > using "Sugar on a Stick", the (long-time) prior marketing of > I assume this is a hypothetical. SugaronaStick.com is distributing Fedora and its is the same as what I'm using in the GPA except for the network settings and which activities are preloaded and stared. > > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove [email protected] 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax
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