Hi Shane; OpenOffice.org is a brand the ASF owns now and I don't want it diluted. I have also heard the name is in some countries' legislation.
I think Apache OpenOffice is a better name for the project because it is shorter/simpler, and is more catchy. TBH I wouldn't complain if it's the name of the product too. I am aware of projects that have subprojects that later fork, maybe we will end up having, say Apache OO Spellchecker :-). cheers, Pedro. --- On Thu, 11/10/11, Shane Curcuru <a...@shanecurcuru.org> wrote: > From: Shane Curcuru <a...@shanecurcuru.org> > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS]+[VOTE] Trademark and Branding > To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org > Date: Thursday, November 10, 2011, 12:57 AM > On 2011-11-09 8:14 PM, Pedro Giffuni > wrote: > > Hello; > > > > An important question. The vote is for choosing the > > product name, can the project name be different? > > > > To make this clear: I would think it practical to > > keep option (a) for the product, but option (b) > > for the project. > > One question: why would that be desirable? I.e. what > is the benefit of > having a separate project name (i.e. the name of the > website and the PMC > here) versus the product name (i.e. the actual downloadable > releases in > the future)? > > By way of comparison, all (I think) other Apache projects > use the same > terminology for the project name and the product name. > > I would expect that the product and project would use the > same name > (whatever it is) unless there is a strong and clear > consensus among the > PPMC to explicitly use different names. > > - Shane > > > > > Just wondering if there will be a second vote for > > the project name. > > > > regards, > > > > Pedro. > > > > --- On Wed, 11/9/11, Donald Harbison<dpharbi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> We've had a lengthy discussion on > >> ooo-marketing regarding trademark and > >> branding considerations and options. It's time we > moved > >> forward and made a > >> decision in order to expedite the ongoing > migration of the > >> web site and to > >> remove one more obstacle from the dev team. > >> > >> We want to preserve and protect the historic > OpenOffice.org > >> trademark. The > >> choice of an Apache name and new trademark will > not impact > >> the historic > >> mark as granted to the Apache Software Foundation > for > >> stewardship. > >> > >> Since this is a major decision we felt it > important to > >> bring it back to > >> ooo-dev for final discussion then vote. We have > the choices > >> presented on > >> the wiki[1] for your reference. > >> > >> [1]https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/OOOUSERS/** > >> Branding+Planning<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Branding+Planning> > >> >
