On 09/04/2016 15:44, Owen O'Malley wrote: > Mark, > Yahoo and Hortonworks have been running Hadoop Summits continually since > 2008. There is absolutely no one on tradema...@hadoop.apache.org that > doesn't know about them. Furthermore, Hadoop Summit is very Apache focused > using a diverse program committee, free meet ups around the event, and it > is the only professional Hadoop conference that provided all 130 Hadoop > committers free access this year.
No-one is questioning any of the above. However, the process as documented in [1] is that permission needs to be requested to use ASF marks for each event. > I remind the Hadoop Summit organizers each year to send concom and the > Linux Foundation the dates as they are planned. I believe they did, but I'm > not watching those lists. I didn't know that you wanted the dates here as > well and I rectified that when I realized it. You probably also want to put > in the dates for Hadoop World, which is organized by O'Reily. I did some digging in the mail archives and an e-mail was received by concom early in March and a reply was sent on the same day pointing to [1] as the new process and highlighting the need to contact trademarks. I have checked the archives for both the ASF-wide and Hadoop specific trademarks list and no e-mails have been received by either of those lists requesting permission to the use the relevant ASF marks for Hadoop Summit 2016. There may well be agreements in place covering Hadoop Summit 2016 that provide the necessary approvals but my searching of the archives has not found them. Pointers to any such agreements (off-list if the locations are private please) would be appreciated. Ditto for Hadoop World. I do not believe we should be adding any events to the official ASF calendar until we can confirm that the appropriate permissions have been requested and received. Mark [1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/events.html
