+1 On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 6:34 PM, Wes McKinney <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Jacques Nadeau <[email protected]> > > 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 <[email protected]> > >> 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 <[email protected]> > >>> 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 <[email protected]> > >>>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> Single vote for most preferred? > >>>>> > >>>>> Single transferable vote? > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 2:50 AM, Jacques Nadeau <[email protected]> > >>>>> 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 < > [email protected]> > >>>>>> 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 > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >>> > >> > > > > > -- Julien
