On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Andy Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Rob Weir wrote: >> >> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Simon Phipps<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Rob Weir<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> However, I would request that we be careful about the branding on the >>>> forums, since they are part of the Apache project. For example, the >>>> titles of the forums today are "OpenOffice.org Community Forum". >>>> Maybe call them instead "Apache OpenOffice.org Support Forum" ? >>>> >>>> Also, the internal subtitle is "User community support forum for >>>> OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice, StarOffice, and NeoOffice". (Note also >>>> that this subtitle is not consistent across the languages.) I think >>>> that is unnecessarily restrictive. It could safely be omitted. >>>> >>> >>> Surely the net effect of these two changes taken together would be more, >>> rather than less restrictive? >>> >> >> By naming some products, but not others, we're being arbitrarily >> restrictive. But listing the actual product under whose aegis this >> forum is hosted is merely being accurate. Whether the forums are >> restrictive or not will depend on the behavior of forum participants >> to questions from users of products other than Apache OpenOffice. As >> stated before, I hoping we'll be helpful where we can, and refer users >> to the respective projects otherwise. >> >> I'd be equally happy with a neutral: "User community support forum for >> Apache OpenOffice.org and related products". >> > > Would it not be more accurate to say "OpenOffice.org and related products"? > At this time there is no Apache OpenOffice.org to be related to. Even > Apache OpenOffice.org will be one of those "related products". >
My understanding of Apache Branding Requirements is that we only need to use the full name the first time it is used on the page. So title = "Apache OpenOffice.org Support Forum" and subtitle = "User community support forum for OpenOffice.org and related products" would be fine. > Andy > >
