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
> 

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