This is an exploratory note and a heads-up - we've been thinking about getting a trademark for "POSSE" (in the context of education/open source) so that we'll be able to keep and protect that name (and the little owl-logo) for the workshop TOS does, on behalf of the TOS community.
Max and I asked Pam Chestek, Red Hat's awesome lawyer-ninja who's done all the Fedora trademark stuff, how this would work, and we're moving towards filing an application for the trademark in the USA and a few other countries. We want to be transparent about this and hear comments and thoughts that folks might have, so this is an initial heads-up for starter feedback in case there's something we've missed or any questions anyone has about the process and what it means. It shouldn't have an effect on what anyone else is doing right now, it just means that if someone outside TOS wants to call their workshop "POSSE," they have to ask us first. At least that's my (non-lawyerly) understanding of it. --Mel _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
