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 :-)
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.
-John
Here is my updated draft proposal:
Short Name
Trademark and Branding
Sponsoring Communities
Advocacy ?
OGB ?
ON/Nevada ?
Desktop ?
Appliances ?
... ?
Initial participants
John Plocher
Sara Dornsife
Teri Molini
Ian Murdock
Eric Boutiller
Al Hopper
Shawn Walker
Simon Phipps
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.
