I am enjoying the positive energy here on this list. There is an earnest, eagerness to get things done.
On Jan 5, 2012, at 4:18 PM, Brent Arnold wrote: > That's a good point regarding whether we need a new website. I wasn't sure > what features are available to the community for adding wiki's, etc. to the > existing apache.org website. I would consider my site valuable to the > community for things like sharing tutorials, listing discussions that are > beyond the technical side of things. Also please see the Apache Infrastructure service offerings. http://www.apache.org/dev/services.html BTW - This project, here, on this list *IS* the Apache Flex community. > I'm currently looking into the domain name usage policy here: > http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/domains.html#nonaffiliation and will > make sure I comply with everything. An important thing to note is that this > isn't a competing software product or anything of that nature. In the end, if > it's too much legalise, it's not a problem to close the site down. We're only > talking about a $9 domain registration fee. ;-) The name of the domain itself may be infringing. http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/#domains and http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/domains.html You could certainly donate the domain name to the project. Even if it is nothing more than a redirection to the project it then protects the Apache Flex brand. Regards, Dave > > > Brent > > On 1/5/12 5:04 PM, Peter Elst wrote: >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> As a member of the Flex community I wanted to contribute in some way, >>> and since I'm not an initial committer or anything, I figured I could at >>> least do something like setup and host a website --> apacheflex.org >>> >> >> Thanks for the initiative, I'd propose to just have it redirect to the >> incubator page - don't really see a benefit in having a separate website >> using the trademarks. >> >> - Peter >>
