These are all excellent questions to ask about our approval for a third
party event, and a good discussion.
From experience, I know that Citrix has been doing a good job with past
events and other materials at respecting and promoting the Apache brand
independently from their own projects - as well as the actual sponsoring
of these kind of items for the project's benefit. I also know that many
of the Citrix employees who are committers on Apache CloudStack have
done a great job of ensuring it stays that way.
Given that and given the past successful events, I'm quite happy with
this plan. I only wish I could attend this year!
- Shane
On 6/11/2013 2:29 PM, Chip Childers wrote:
(note mixed pub / private lists please)
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 05:35:30PM +0000, Mark Hinkle wrote:
The booth will be a 20x20 space with four pods with tower dedicated to each
individual project. The center will have have a gaming area (XBox) and the
Open@Citrix brand for the Citrix Open Source Office.
Each tower is a clearly distinct project pod for each -- Apache CloudStack, Xen
Project, Linux Foundation's Open Daylight and a fourth project we are working
on launching that is complimentary to the other three.
Each open source project will be offered a 3' table and accompanying wall
mounted screen.
On the screen we are asking each project to provide a looping presentation and
then on the desktop they'll be able to give a demo via a laptop if they so
chose.
Here's a rough rendering of the design - http://postimg.org/image/40w0e6vnl/
IMO, this seems fine, and would be a benefit to the Apache CloudStack
project. trademarks@, could you please review and comment if you have
any concerns. I'm personally +1.
As for the poker party the even is a Citrix event and then each table would
have a placard with their project logo.We would encourage each project to have
members there to in I believe that some of the Apache members were in
attendance last year. I recall we had Gluster, Ceph, CloudStack, Puppet, etc. I
would point out that this is the second time we would be doing this and we were
approved last year and I believe that some of the Apache folks might have been
at the event. We don't plan to modify the format if that was acceptable.
Here are some pictures of last year's event, no overt Citrix branding, each
table had a placard so like-minded individuals could cluster around their
favorite projects:
Xen Project Table - See Placard - OSCON branded with Xen Project
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oreillyconf/7610788408/in/set-72157630609904796/lightbox/
A typical table - Robyn Bergeron from Fedora brought the playing cards last year
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oreillyconf/7610789996/in/set-72157630609904796
Sarah Novotny - OSCON Conference chair had a "bounty" prize for whoever knocked
her out of the poker tourney:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oreillyconf/7610792552/in/set-72157630609904796
I'm also personally +1 on the "Apache CloudStack" table at the poker party.
Thanks
for sharing the photos. It looks like it was a fun event!
I hope that helps.
It did for me. Thanks for the details Mark.
Please consider this the CloudStack PMC "ACK", so we should leave this
issue open for 72 hours for lazy consensus of the PMC and trademarks@
folks.
We do have the non-software goods to approve when those
designs are ready, but if they use the appropriate logo files
linked to from our trademark guidelines [1] it'll hopefully be an easy
approval.
Regards, Mark
-chip
[1] http://cloudstack.apache.org/trademark-guidelines.html
