I don’t think the current “customer experience” of people who request use of 
our logo or word mark is very good.  It certainly doesn’t encourage people to 
use our brand. Take Karens recent request: theres been a dozen or so emails on 
it, all with our own viewpoint. Karen’s been CC’d on most of those I think. 
Shes probably sat there, with 1001 deadlines getting frustrated with lots of 
views on the subject – all she really wants to do is get some tshirts printed 
in time for some event or another.
And Karen does this a lot: I remember the guys at Ikoula

At the moment, the TM guide says this for non-software:

• Without explicit written permission, goods bearing any of the CloudStack 
marks may not be sold.
• Designs for non-software goods require both PMC approval and approval from 
[email protected].

I would love to see that changed to:
If you wish to use the CloudStack mark on any non-software goods (maybe tee 
shirts for a conference or some marketing collateral) we’d love to see you do 
that. Please email [email protected]  with artwork or a descrition and we’ll come 
back to you with approval within 5 days. You must not print until we have 
approval blah blah

The  PMC then can discuss internally if required (vote if required) and send a 
mail of to Shane and get back to requestor with a simple yes/no


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Giles

Giles Sirett
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