In fact Martin if I remember correctly we had already discussed this on-list... I will try to find the thread.
The idea is to maximize launch impact by keeping the element of surprise on our side. This is also why the ice-cream shop doesn't announce their summer specials in advance - people like to be amused at what the latest news is, at their ice-cream parlor or at their project :-) Many journalists who covered the Strawberry launch were delighted with the name. Another idea with the flavor name roughly matching the logo color is for nongeeks to easily identify a SoaS version by mentioning the color of the Sugar logo at boot time. This helps us avoid horrid text and version numbers during the graphic boot sequence. You may remember Gary said (after his great green recoloring job on the beauty shot) that he was putting in a vote for Gooseberry (http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting.log.20090609_1104.html)... Single names are best - easier to remember. We had brought up with Christian the possibility of adding a new logo color combination for the next mystery flavor ;-) "Sugar" the word can have negative connotations associated with diabetes, obesity, sweets without nutrients, etc. The ice-cream association helps us because it's fun, it's associated with kids, and it doesn't harm anyone to have a cone. It greatly assisted us to go "beta" and "v1" with SoaS, since journalists and bloggers understood that numbering immediately. This is solving our problem of incomprehensible Sugar + Fedora + OLPC-OS version numbers (as useful as they are to us from a technical standpoint). We said in our June 24th press release that the next SoaS version would come out before the end of the year; our challenge is to find a newsworthy story to tell for that launch (and the other PR we are working on to create buzz and spread awareness). For the v2 launch or the next, I am hoping we can put together a "try Sugar online" web environment which could be as basic as showing the interface with rollover balloons, or as complex as actually processing data. Sean On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Martin Dengler<mar...@martindengler.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:10:40PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: >> Hi Martin >> >> The idea is ice cream flavors > > Ok. I hadn't picked up on this, despite being in the meeting when it > was mentioned[1]. I suspect others may not have, either. > >> and Blueberry works since I had rollup banners and posters made in >> both the Strawberry and Blueberry colors, keeping them current for >> at least a couple of years (considering their cost). > > Excellent. > >> However, as stated previously it hasn't been our plan to name SoaS >> releases in advance > > Where is this policy? Does it state how far in advance is "in > advance"? > >> thanks >> >> Sean > > Martin > > 1. http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting.log.20090609_1104.html > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel