Again, this is a marketing discussion and in my view outside the scope of the question.
Developing and building a brand is lots of work and it's unrealistic to try to limit what other brands can be, as opposed to what they can't be - in other words, what is explicitly protected by copyright and trademark law. "SoaS" is our shorthand for "Sugar on a Stick" and "Sugar on a Stick - anything" would not work for the reasons I've described in detail. I'm open to a conversation with any marketers from distributions interested in doing a liveUSB version of Sugar and needing ideas for a name. There is plenty of room for different paths; Trisquel has done very interesting work with branded setup screens. Sean On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Tabitha Roder <[email protected]> wrote: > Regarding question 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?" > > If we are leaning towards: > Yes. Sugar on a Stick is the central pillar of our marketing strategy. > It's not trademarked, but should be. SL does not want to confuse its > users and a light touch like this is all that's needed. > > Can I suggest we start talking about what method we recommend others > use to define other Sugar on a USB naming conventions? This will help > those who create other distributions to know what to do if we > publicise that "Sugar on a Stick" is only to be used for the Sugarlabs > SoaS-Fedora distributions. > > Do we want them to use the abbreviation SoaS or not? e.g. SoaS-Ubuntu, > SoaS-Suse, SoaS-Debian > Do we want version numbers? Dates in the names? Should their be a > letter that tells us the base like U for Ubuntu? > What about another acronym? > Does the TOAST example help us? > > When people ask for help, they need to know what they have. > > Tabitha > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
