+1 -- Jacques Nadeau CTO and Co-Founder, Dremio
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 6:34 PM, Wes McKinney <w...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Should we have a last call for votes, closing EOD tomorrow (Tuesday)? I > missed this for a few days last week with holiday travel. > > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Julian Hyde <jul...@hydromatic.net> > wrote: > >> Consulting a lawyer is part of the Apache branding process but the first >> stage is to gather a list of potential conflicts - >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-90 is an example. >> >> The other part, frankly, is to pick your battles. >> >> A year or so ago Actian re-branded Vectorwise as Vector. >> http://www.zdnet.com/article/actian-consolidates-its-analytics-portfolio/. >> Given that it is an analytic database in the Hadoop space I think that is >> as close to a “direct hit” as it gets. I don’t think we need a lawyer to >> tell us that. Certainly it makes sense to look for conflicts for the other >> alternatives before consulting lawyers. >> >> Julian >> >> >> >> >> On Nov 25, 2015, at 9:42 PM, Marcel Kornacker <mar...@cloudera.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Jacques Nadeau <jacq...@dremio.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Ok guys, >>> >>> I don't think anyone is doing a thorough analysis of viaability. I did a >>> quick glance and the top one (Vector) seems like it would have an issue >>> with conflict of an Actian product. The may be fine. Let's do a second >>> phase vote. >>> >> >> I'm assuming you mean Vectorwise? >> >> Before we do anything else, could we have a lawyer look into this? Last >> time around that I remember (Parquet), Twitter's lawyers did a good job of >> weeding out the potential trademark violations. >> >> Alex, could Twitter get involved this time around as well? >> >> >>> >>> Pick your top 3 (1,2,3 with 3 being top preference) >>> >>> Let's get this done by Friday and then we can do a podling name search >>> starting with the top one. >>> >>> Link again: >>> >>> >>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1q6UqluW6SLuMKRwW2TBGBzHfYLlXYm37eKJlIxWQGQM/edit#gid=304381532&vpid=A1 >>> >>> thanks >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Jacques Nadeau >>> CTO and Co-Founder, Dremio >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Jacques Nadeau <jacq...@dremio.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Ok, it looks like we have a candidate list (we actually got 11 since >>>> there was a three-way tie for ninth place): >>>> >>>> VectorArrowhoneycombHerringbonejoistV2Pietcolbufbatonimpulsevictor >>>> Next we need to do trademark searches on each of these to see whether >>>> we're likely to have success. I've moved candidates to a second tab: >>>> >>>> >>>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1q6UqluW6SLuMKRwW2TBGBzHfYLlXYm37eKJlIxWQGQM/edit#gid=304381532 >>>> >>>> Anybody want to give a hand in analyzing potential conflicts? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Jacques Nadeau >>>> CTO and Co-Founder, Dremio >>>> >>>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Jacques Nadeau <jacq...@dremio.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Everybody should pick their ten favorites using the numbers 1 to 10. >>>>> >>>>> 10 is most preferred >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Jacques Nadeau >>>>> CTO and Co-Founder, Dremio >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Single vote for most preferred? >>>>>> >>>>>> Single transferable vote? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 2:50 AM, Jacques Nadeau <jacq...@dremio.com> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Given that a bunch of people added names to the sheet, I'll take >>>>>>> that as tacit agreement to the proposed process. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Let's move to the first vote phase. I've added a column for >>>>>>> everybody's votes. Let's try to wrap up the vote by 10am on Wednesday. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> thanks! >>>>>>> Jacques >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> Jacques Nadeau >>>>>>> CTO and Co-Founder, Dremio >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Jacques Nadeau <jacq...@apache.org >>>>>>> > wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hey Guys, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> It sounds like we need to do a little more work on the Vector >>>>>>>> proposal >>>>>>>> before the board would like to consider it. The main point of >>>>>>>> contention >>>>>>>> right now is the name of the project. We need to decide on a name >>>>>>>> and get >>>>>>>> it signed off through PODLINGNAMESEARCH. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Naming is extremely subjective so I'd like to propose a process for >>>>>>>> selection that minimizes pain. This is an initial proposal and >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> We do the naming in the following steps >>>>>>>> - 1: Collect a set of names to be considered >>>>>>>> - 2: Run a vote for 2 days where each member ranks their top 10 >>>>>>>> options >>>>>>>> 1..10 >>>>>>>> - 3: Take the top ten vote getters and do a basic analysis of >>>>>>>> whether we >>>>>>>> think that any have legal issues. Keep dropping names that have >>>>>>>> this until >>>>>>>> we get with 10 reasonably solid candidate names >>>>>>>> - 5: Take the top ten names and give people 48 hours to rank their >>>>>>>> top 3 >>>>>>>> names >>>>>>>> - 6: Start a PODLINGNAMESEARCH on the top rank one, if that doesn't >>>>>>>> work, >>>>>>>> try the second and third options. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I suggest we take name suggestions for step 1 from everyone but then >>>>>>>> constrain the voting to the newly proposed project [1]. We could >>>>>>>> just do >>>>>>>> this in a private email thread but I think doing it on Drill dev is >>>>>>>> better >>>>>>>> in the interest of transparency. This isn't the perfect place for >>>>>>>> that but >>>>>>>> I'm not sure a better place exists. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I'm up for changing any or all of this depending on what others >>>>>>>> think. Just >>>>>>>> wanted to get the ball rolling on a proposed process. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> If this works, I've posted a doc at [2] that we can use for step 1. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>>> Jacques >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> [1] List of proposed new project members/voters: Todd Lipcon, Ted >>>>>>>> Dunning, >>>>>>>> Michael Stack, P. Taylor Goetz, Julian Hyde, Julien Le Dem, Jacques >>>>>>>> Nadeau, >>>>>>>> James Taylor, Jake Luciani, Parth Chandra, Alex Levenson, Marcel >>>>>>>> Kornacker, >>>>>>>> Steven Phillips, Hanifi Gunes, Wes McKinney, Jason Altekruse, David >>>>>>>> Alves, >>>>>>>> Zain Asgar, Ippokratis Pandis, Abdel Hakim Deneche, Reynold Xin. >>>>>>>> [2] >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1q6UqluW6SLuMKRwW2TBGBzHfYLlXYm37eKJlIxWQGQM/edit#gid=0 >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >
