[indiana-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Indiana as the OpenSolaris xxxx distro (was Re: [smf-discuss] Review for 6608098)

[Sara Dornsife]

Sun owns the TM, and in the end will have final sign-off of whatever 
guidelines, we as a community, propose. I have every confidence that if 
we make suggestions that are good for the brand that they will not only 
be considered, but likely adopted.
Sara


Brandorr wrote:
> P.S. - +1 if we get Sun's approval to make Trademark decisions.
>
> On 10/19/07, Brandorr <brandorr at opensolaris.org> wrote:
>   
>> One question. Has Sun delegated authority to the community for
>> Trademark policy decisions? If not can we have a "Sun rep" we get
>> that?
>>
>> John P. have you cleared this project with the powers that be? (I
>> don't exactly know, who can sign off on these things.)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brian
>>
>> On 10/19/07, Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at sun.com> wrote:
>>     
>>>  John Plocher wrote:
>>>  Jim Grisanzio wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>  Is this the actual proposal or a proposal for a proposal?
>>>
>>>  Given that I am the new guy on the block in the Advocacy Community, I'll
>>> defer to your guidance here. It seems to have support (several +1's,
>>> no -1 - yet), and I am serious about wanting to get this topic nailed
>>> down, but I don't want to ram anything (more) down your throats :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  You proposed it on advocacy-discuss and you got a bunch of +1s from
>>> Advocacy people so you are good to go in that respect.
>>>
>>>
>>>  For this to be an effective project, it needs to be endorsed by a bunch
>>> of Communities, and populated by a representative set of contributers
>>> from them. I'd consider this proposal to be incomplete until that aspect
>>> has been addressed.
>>>
>>>
>>>  Ok, well, do you want to wait to get those endorsements before you open or
>>> open now and get them over time? As Advocacy Facilitator I can move now
>>> based on the support you have and the updated proposal below. Your call.
>>>
>>>
>>>  -John
>>>
>>> Here is my updated draft proposal:
>>>
>>> Short Name
>>>  Trademark and Branding
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Do you want a list? If so, what name?
>>>
>>>
>>>  Sponsoring Communities
>>>  Advocacy ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Advocacy is sponsoring.
>>>
>>>
>>>  OGB ?
>>>  ON/Nevada ?
>>>  Desktop ?
>>>  Appliances ?
>>>  ... ?
>>>
>>> Initial participants
>>>  John Plocher
>>>  Sara Dornsife
>>>  Teri Molini
>>>  Ian Murdock
>>>  Eric Boutiller
>>>  Al Hopper
>>>  Shawn Walker
>>>  Simon Phipps
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Regarding leaders: please give me their site user names as well. It makes
>>> it much, much easier to open projects and insert a user name rather than
>>> having go to into each person's profile on the site and insert it that way.
>>> As a short cut, I add myself as lead and then just add the other user names
>>> via the hidden project and then delete myself.
>>>
>>>
>>>  Any OGB members interested?
>>>  Any Indiana participants interested?
>>>  Anyone else interested?
>>>
>>> Description:
>>>
>>>  This project is chartered to develop a Trademark usage and Branding
>>>  guideline policy that covers the use of the OpenSolaris Trademark.
>>>
>>>  Once developed and approved by the project members, the proposed
>>>  policy will be submitted to the OpenSolaris Community Membership
>>>  for a formal vote.
>>>
>>>  If the policy is approved, it will apply to all use of the
>>>  OpenSolaris trademark, both within and outside of the OpenSolaris
>>>  Community, specifically including Sun Microsystems.
>>>
>>>  If it is not approved, this project will, at the sole discretion of
>>>  Sun's delegated trademark and branding owners (Sara, Ian and Teri?),
>>>  either attempt to create a new policy for adoption, or disolve this
>>>  project and leave the OpenSolaris Trademark usage policy definition
>>>  to Sun.
>>>
>>>  Once and if an initial policy is adopted, this project will continue
>>>  as the policy-maintainer of record, with the expectation that minor
>>>  changes to the policy will be dealt with without requiring Community
>>>  re-ratification, but that major changes (especially ones that take
>>>  away usage rights or grant exclusive rights) will be brought to the
>>>  entire OpenSolaris Community for re-ratification.
>>>
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>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>       
>> --
>> - Brian Gupta
>>
>> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/
>>
>>     
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