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. > > _______________________________________________ > advocacy-discuss mailing list > advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > indiana-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > > -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/
