I need to express my position on the two questions I haven't yet. I will do so tomorrow, it's late I'm a bit tired to express myself clearly tonight.
thanks Sean On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > We are close to consensus consensus on the first two points. Help with > wording a final report would be appreciated. I wish I could extrapolate > Bill B's position from some of his earlier comments, but I cannot :) > > We don't have consensus on the specific wording of the 3rd question, but do > on the underlying principle of 'not being confusing' -- there are two > suggestions that a more specific name than "Sugar on a Stick" be used, as > that name is a normal English phrase and could naturally refer to a whole > class of distributions. > > Since there's already a mailing list and some history behind "Sugar on a > Stick", are there any others on this list that would like to see a more > specific name? Does anyone expect this list to refer to all distributions > of Sugar on removable devices, or is there broad agreement that this is for > a specific team, concept, and product? > > Finally, are there any other questions that have been raised that people > feel we should address? > > SJ > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Samuel Klein wrote: >> > Ben, Bill, DSD and Faisal -- can you please weigh in and share your >> > thoughts? >> >> Happy to. >> >> "Should Sugar Labs be a GNU/Linux distributor, rather than just an >> upstream producing Sugar releases?" >> >> Yes. Sugar Labs should do whatever is needed to make Sugar easily >> available to our audience. When this goal is best achieved by >> distributing complete operating systems including Sugar, we should have no >> qualms about doing so. However, Sugar Labs should also continue to >> emphasize the availability of Sugar through the mechanisms of existing >> distro package managers, in order to reach users who already run GNU. >> >> "Should SL be neutral about distributions containing Sugar, and refuse to >> endorse one over another?" >> >> Yes. Sugar Labs does not now have a mechanism for making blanket >> endorsements, and it should not instate one. Conversely, Sugar Labs >> should help users to choose their best option for deploying Sugar, >> depending on their individual needs, and this will typically mean >> recommending a particular distribution best suited for each user. >> >> "Should 'Sugar on a Stick' be a phrase that SL asks its community to avoid >> using unless they refer to the SoaS-Fedora distribution?" >> >> No. We should give this distribution a unique, identifiable name that >> cannot be confused with a generic description of an entire class of >> distributions. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > > _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
