Hi Shane Thanks for the response. It's probably better if I put you in contact with my contact in the WiBD group as she would be able to answer your queries.
I will forward the details to the trademarks list. Thanks Sharan On 12 Oct 2016 02:42, "Shane Curcuru" <a...@shanecurcuru.org> wrote: > (Note mixed private/public lists) > > Sharan, can you be more specific as to what this event is and where > you're requesting use of the logo? > > The issue is that using the ASF's feather logo as part of the primary > branding gives the impression that this is an official Apache event. > While it's great when Apache committers can speak at events, that > doesn't mean they're speaking on behalf of the ASF as a whole. > > My quick take without understanding more is that this is not OK. It's > fine for an "About this speaker" page on a normal conference site to > mention that someone's an Apache committer on project X and include the > project logo, because that's about the person. > > But allowing a single vendor to use the Apache feather to promote their > event overall... not usually a good idea. > > - Shane > > Melissa Warnkin wrote on 10/6/16 6:32 PM: > ... > > Hi Everyone > > > > The Women in Big Data (WiBD) presentation session has been arranged and > > committer Kathy Saunders will be presenting it. I think they also > > mentioned some other committers will be participating. > > > > They are now looking at promoting the talk and are requesting permission > > to use the ASF logo for their publicity. The session is going to be > > called 'An Evening with the Apache Software Foundation: The Benefits of > > Being Open’ Hosted by Hortonworks > > > > Will it be OK for them for use the ASF logo to promote this talk and put > > on their publicity? > > > > Thanks > > Sharan > > > >
