Hi Chris, all, 2012/2/17 Mattmann, Chris A (388J) <[email protected]>
> Hey Greg, > > On Feb 17, 2012, at 1:20 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > > > My opinion is that if something is run on Apache hardware, then it > > should follow the same branding rules that we use for .apache.org. > > Yeah here was the background on this. The prior-to-Apache Any23 folks > were funded by several projects out of the European Union and they had > this external service that let folks call their RDF web service for Any23, > I think it was hosted (and is hosted) at http://any23.org/ > > So anyways Lewis was asking an infrastructure question related to Apache > Any23 > in the Incubator here, that seems to have turned into a branding question: > > The infra one: > 1. Should we move this external service/site over to ASF hardware > > The branding one (via Richard who manages the external site) and an > inspection of the external any23.org site: > > 1. If that site has some logos on it from the research institutions where > Any23 was > at before it came to the ASF, can we like include a thanks page associated > with > the incoming page and/or the Any23 website that still conforms to project > branding > rules but maybe lets us keep the logos (with nofollow tags) on them to say > "thanks > research institutions in the European Union for originally funding this > before coming > to the ASF." > > I asked Greg about this on GChat and am bring the conversation on list. > > Checking out: > > http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/pmcs.html > > and > > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/branding.html > > led us to: > http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/pmcs.html#navigation > > There isn't much guidance there on Project or PMC specific "thanks pages". > > I am thinking of either opening up a new trademarks JIRA issue or > a new thread on trademarks@ to discuss this because I think that > it should be OK to say "thanks" to upstream contributors of software > that is donated or granted to the Apache Software Foundation, in a manner > such as a thanks page including either text or some logos (with no follow) > links to point back to the lineage and say thanks. > > Thoughts? > +1, I do agree with your sentence: "we should be able to attribute the branding on the any23.org site by including the original contributors to the projects and their logos too" and maybe opening a Jira on trademarks (easier to follow with the 'watch' button for the ones not subscribed to the trademarks@ ML) may help define if we can go this way (and be a reference for this kind of topics in the future). Tommaso > > Cheers, > Chris > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. > Senior Computer Scientist > NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA > Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 > Email: [email protected] > WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department > University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >
