On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 18:58, Daniel Drake <d...@laptop.org> wrote: > 2009/9/16 Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org>: >> I cannot speak for Sebastian nor the whole SoaS community, but >> something like making SoaS an official project in SLs could go a long >> way. This would mean saying that "Sugar on a Stick" is a project with >> this vision, this mission, this roadmap, this governance model, etc. > > Yes, that makes sense. Sebastian, if it were made a project would that > clear up your doubts? > This isn't giving SoaS any special treatment -- any project that comes > close to the calibre of soas is obviously candidate to become > recognised as an official project. > >> Also discussing like Sean has made the possibility of an hypothetical >> switch to another distro is very good I think. Better have this on the >> table than letting it be hidden in the backs of our minds. > > I don't think it would be fair to take over the name of another > project. If another distro project comes along, I feel that it should > pick its own name. And is the name really that important? As an > example, the existing OLPC distros never really had a name. I call > them e.g. "OLPC OS 8.2.0" but there doesn't seem to be any consensus, > and it hasn't been a hinderance in adoption. The users don't really > get to see the bits that are underneath, so they only refer to "Sugar" > anyway.
I think the problem is that SLs may want to market an user-end distro and only one, and call it the same regardless of the underlying technologies, because the user doesn't care about those. Maybe an appropriate analogy would be the VIA-based OLPC being called XO as well as the AMD-based. So maybe we should use different names for the distro-tied project and the product? Regards, Tomeu -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel