On Jul 12, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Danese Cooper wrote: > To recap...I think this might be a slightly different situation than Apache > has previously experienced and it might be worth having the ASF Trademark > watchdogs and ASF lawyers talk through the pros and cons of what's possible > / advisable to do in this special case. That conversation could impact / > inform the naming strategy for various parts of the project and I think it > should happen soon.
Yes, please. Should the discussion also include the issue of whether it is permissible to host extensions and templates with all kinds of licenses on an http://*.openoffice.org domain? It happens now. Best Regards, Dave > > D > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes, exactly! >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Jul 12, 2011, at 8:39 AM, Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Jul 12, 2011, at 8:03 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 12 Jul 2011, at 15:38, Dave Fisher wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Jul 12, 2011, at 7:03 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 12 Jul 2011, at 13:32, Kai Ahrens wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Of course it makes a difference to ask our users instead of asking >> some >>>>>>>> deeply involved people on this list, having very subjective >> interests in >>>>>>>> one or the other direction. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> And in the end, the user rules, not any marketing speech. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> While that sounds good, I'm not sure it's the Apache way and I'd >> welcome a comment from one of the mentors. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> See Daneese Cooper's emails. >>>>> >>>>> Did you have a specific one in mind? Naturally I read everything Danese >> writes, but so far I have not seen her comment on the issue of whether and >> how market research over-rides the interests of Apache members. >>>> >>>> Sorry, I am out of pocket and this thread is so long. Basically she is >> talking about consulting one of the ASF's attorney's regarding the names and >> brand dilution issues from a legal standpoint. >>> >>> You are likely referring to this post then: >>> >>> http://s.apache.org/UxA >>> >>>> I hadn't gotten to market research. I'm focused on migration and the >> websites - all names are possible right now and in the future. I don't want >> to tie the branding too tightly in the web design. The Apache CMS will allow >> us to isolate these elements. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Dave >>> >>> - Sam Ruby >>
