On 10/19/07, John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> wrote: > Brandorr 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? > > Teri, Ian and Sara "own" the marketing and PR for the OpenSolaris > trademark, and both Sara and Teri gave +1's to the project proposal. > (I presume Ian is traveling or otherwise out of touch) So did Simon > Phipps, Sun's Chief Open Source Something-or-Other :-) > > > John P. have you cleared this project with the powers that be? > > Nope. > > You saw the entire interaction, up close and personal, in real time. > > I made my initial proposal on the OGB and Advocacy email lists. > > Teri, Sara and Simon read it at the same time as everyone else, and > they responded to it in public, using the informal voting method as > specified by the OpenSolaris Constitution. > > Just like it is supposed to work! (Whew) > > As I said at the Summit, there /is/ no "Sun" making decisions behind > closed doors - or anywhere else*. There are only "Sun Employees", > and you know many of us - Ian, Sara, myself, AlanC, Glynn, Simon, > JimG, .... > > -John "Forgiveness is easier than Permission" Plocher
I plan to participat, I just want to make sure that whatever decision that we all reach is "doable". IE: I don't want to have us come to an agreement, and then have it rejected for some unforeseen internal Sun reason. You say there are only Sun employees. However, a Corporation is a legal entity of it's own regard. Although any employee of a company can be considered a representative of the company, many of you have gone to great pains to say there is no Sun only as humans. Push comes to shove, a decision of this potential magnitude has to be signed off by legal and or someone who has has the authority. (Possibly B. Lee?) I want to make sure that the people sitting in the room have the authority to shape/represent Sun's Trademark policies. Cheers, -Brian P.S. - That all said, I am going to throw out some talking points on the advocacy list. > ____ > [*] although that lack of decisions may actually be part of a > bigger problem, but I most certainly digress... > > -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/
