Joe, If it were me, I'd wait until Tuesday to contact trademarks@a.o. I've already asked trademarks for their guidance on this matter and they haven't responded yet. I did see trademarks answer another email, but they may not be fully engaged and caught up on everything until Monday.
I would suggest tweaking it a bit to make it clear you've read the domain name policy documents on the Apache site, otherwise the first response you get might just be a pointer to those documents. It is pretty clear to me from those documents that you will have to have a disclaimer on your site. IMO, asking "if desired" implies that you haven't read those documents. -Alex On 1/3/14 7:17 PM, "Joseph Balderson" <n...@joeflash.ca> wrote: >FYI, here is my official request proposal to Apache. Alex, if you would >be so >kind as to forward this on to the folks at Apache that would be greatly >appreciated. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >January 3, 2014 > >To Who It May Concern, > >My name is Joseph Balderson, and I am a professional ActionScript 3.0 >developer >of 13 years, and a specialist Flex developer for 8 years now as of >January 2014. >I have been, in my professional life as an ActionScript developer, an >Adobe-certified Trainer, a teacher of Flash programming at Humber College >in >Toronto, a speaker at user groups, and a professional tech writer. I have >tech >edited a number of books by Peachpit, Friends of Ed and O'Reilly, and in >2009 I >lead a 6-person team to write a 1400-page book Professional Adobe Flex 3 >by Wrox >Publishing, rated 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon. > >With the migration of the Flex framework from Adobe to Apache, good >internet >resources for Flex have fallen through the cracks, namely Tour De Flex and >flexexamples.com, both of which have functioned as essential >micro-tutorial >resources for the beginner, a quick reference for the more experienced >programmer, and visibility on its use to managers and stakeholders. These >two >resources have yet to be migrated/updated to Apache Flex. > >Thus, seeing a need in the programming community, and wanting to help >restore >and promote the adoption of Flex for its own sake, I have purchased the >domain >apacheflexexamples.com, with the intention of turning it into a >micro-tutorial >site with the same purpose and intent of the former flexexamples.com. (An >archive of the site as it existed prior to Flex's migration from Adobe to >Apache >in 2012 can be seen here: >https://web.archive.org/web/20111010030748/http://blog.flexexamples.com/ >). > >To be specific, the purpose and features of apacheflexexamples.com will >include: > >1) provide blog-like micro-tutorials; >2) will be administrated and authored by myself, Joseph Balderson >3) tutorials will be short, on average "single page", thus no code >repository or >downloads of any kind will be necessary; >4) where possible the most recent version of Apache Flex will be used and >indicated; >5) an average of one post per business day will be issued on the site; >6) commenting will be disabled, and users will be encouraged to discuss >the >tutorials on the official us...@flex.apache.org list; >7) an email address will be set up where users can contact the >administrator >(me) for the specific purpose of pointing out typos or problems specific >to the >examples which are non-specific to Flex framework errata issues; >8) a resource/"blogroll" list of resource links will be situated in a >prominent >location in the left or right column so as to help users refer to official >Apache Flex resources; >9) if desired, to avoid confusion with official Apache websites, a >disclaimer >similar to what is currently used in book titles and other publications >will be >indicated at the top of every page, "Apache, Apache Flex, and Flex are >trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. Used with permission. No >endorsement by The Apache Software Foundation is implied by the use of >these marks." >10) no personal promotions (other than an author credit on my part), nor >any >product reviews, endorsements or sales of any kind will be permitted on >the >site: it is strictly for micro-tutorials pertaining to the Apache Flex >framework. (See the flexexamples.com archive as an example) > >In addition, if there comes a time when I am no longer willing or able to >administer the site or keep up a reasonable posting frequency, I will >commit in >writing to donating the domain and the site administration to the Apache >Flex group. > >The aim is to have a few dozen examples blogged and ready to go prior to >launch >sometime in February of 2014. A private beta will be issued, to be >reviewed by >the Apache Flex development team (and the legal department at Apache if >such is >desired) to ensure everyone concerned is satisfied with the end result >prior to >launch. Once the site is launched, posting frequency will be as indicated >above. > >All this to say that I am very vested and interested in conserving the >quality >and integrity of the Apache Flex name. And in order to help increase >positive >adoption of Apache Flex usage, I have purchased this domain with the >intent of >continuing on the work of the esteemed former Adobe employee Peter DeHaan >at >flexexamples.com with a new site. In the spirit of this intent, I humbly >request >your permission to use the Apache trademark in the domain name >apacheflexexamples.com. > >Thank you, > >Joseph Balderson >Flex Developer & Tech Writer >http://www.joeflash.ca >http://www.linkedin.com/in/joeflash >http://tinyurl.com/proflex3book >
