Thank you Shane. Appreciate the approval the kind words. Regards, Mark
On Jun 12, 2013, at 5:38 PM, "Shane Curcuru" <[email protected]> wrote: > These are all excellent questions to ask about our approval for a third party > event, and a good discussion. > > From experience, I know that Citrix has been doing a good job with past > events and other materials at respecting and promoting the Apache brand > independently from their own projects - as well as the actual sponsoring of > these kind of items for the project's benefit. I also know that many of the > Citrix employees who are committers on Apache CloudStack have done a great > job of ensuring it stays that way. > > Given that and given the past successful events, I'm quite happy with this > plan. I only wish I could attend this year! > > - Shane > > On 6/11/2013 2:29 PM, Chip Childers wrote: >> (note mixed pub / private lists please) >> >> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 05:35:30PM +0000, Mark Hinkle wrote: >>> The booth will be a 20x20 space with four pods with tower dedicated to each >>> individual project. The center will have have a gaming area (XBox) and the >>> Open@Citrix brand for the Citrix Open Source Office. >>> Each tower is a clearly distinct project pod for each -- Apache CloudStack, >>> Xen Project, Linux Foundation's Open Daylight and a fourth project we are >>> working on launching that is complimentary to the other three. >>> Each open source project will be offered a 3' table and accompanying wall >>> mounted screen. >>> On the screen we are asking each project to provide a looping presentation >>> and then on the desktop they'll be able to give a demo via a laptop if >>> they so chose. >>> >>> Here's a rough rendering of the design - http://postimg.org/image/40w0e6vnl/ >> >> IMO, this seems fine, and would be a benefit to the Apache CloudStack >> project. trademarks@, could you please review and comment if you have >> any concerns. I'm personally +1. >> >>> >>> As for the poker party the even is a Citrix event and then each table would >>> have a placard with their project logo.We would encourage each project to >>> have members there to in I believe that some of the Apache members were in >>> attendance last year. I recall we had Gluster, Ceph, CloudStack, Puppet, >>> etc. I would point out that this is the second time we would be doing this >>> and we were approved last year and I believe that some of the Apache folks >>> might have been at the event. We don't plan to modify the format if that >>> was acceptable. >>> >>> Here are some pictures of last year's event, no overt Citrix branding, each >>> table had a placard so like-minded individuals could cluster around their >>> favorite projects: >>> >>> Xen Project Table - See Placard - OSCON branded with Xen Project >>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/oreillyconf/7610788408/in/set-72157630609904796/lightbox/ >>> >>> A typical table - Robyn Bergeron from Fedora brought the playing cards last >>> year >>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/oreillyconf/7610789996/in/set-72157630609904796 >>> >>> Sarah Novotny - OSCON Conference chair had a "bounty" prize for whoever >>> knocked her out of the poker tourney: >>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/oreillyconf/7610792552/in/set-72157630609904796 >> >> I'm also personally +1 on the "Apache CloudStack" table at the poker party. >> Thanks >> for sharing the photos. It looks like it was a fun event! >> >>> >>> I hope that helps. >> >> It did for me. Thanks for the details Mark. >> >> Please consider this the CloudStack PMC "ACK", so we should leave this >> issue open for 72 hours for lazy consensus of the PMC and trademarks@ >> folks. >> >> We do have the non-software goods to approve when those >> designs are ready, but if they use the appropriate logo files >> linked to from our trademark guidelines [1] it'll hopefully be an easy >> approval. >> >>> >>> Regards, Mark >> >> -chip >> >> [1] http://cloudstack.apache.org/trademark-guidelines.html >
