On 2011-11-09 8:14 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
Hello;
An important question. The vote is for choosing the
product name, can the project name be different?
To make this clear: I would think it practical to
keep option (a) for the product, but option (b)
for the project.
One question: why would that be desirable? I.e. what is the benefit of
having a separate project name (i.e. the name of the website and the PMC
here) versus the product name (i.e. the actual downloadable releases in
the future)?
By way of comparison, all (I think) other Apache projects use the same
terminology for the project name and the product name.
I would expect that the product and project would use the same name
(whatever it is) unless there is a strong and clear consensus among the
PPMC to explicitly use different names.
- Shane
Just wondering if there will be a second vote for
the project name.
regards,
Pedro.
--- On Wed, 11/9/11, Donald Harbison<[email protected]> wrote:
We've had a lengthy discussion on
ooo-marketing regarding trademark and
branding considerations and options. It's time we moved
forward and made a
decision in order to expedite the ongoing migration of the
web site and to
remove one more obstacle from the dev team.
We want to preserve and protect the historic OpenOffice.org
trademark. The
choice of an Apache name and new trademark will not impact
the historic
mark as granted to the Apache Software Foundation for
stewardship.
Since this is a major decision we felt it important to
bring it back to
ooo-dev for final discussion then vote. We have the choices
presented on
the wiki[1] for your reference.
[1]https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/OOOUSERS/**
Branding+Planning<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Branding+Planning>
