Would the same trademark problems exist if a custom flash drive was made using the OpenOffice orb with seagull logo? I am thinking that this might be a take-away promotion as folks would use this on their computer - if it is affordable. It might be less expensive - possibly with a custom lanyard. Something like : http://www.memorysuppliers.com/cuusbfldr.html
http://www.memorysuppliers.com/custom-usb-flash-drive-shapes.html Nancy Nancy Web Design Free 24 hour pass to lynda.com. Video courses on SEO, CMS, Design and Software Courses ________________________________ From: Pedro Giffuni <p...@apache.org> To: "ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org" <ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 12:15 PM Subject: Re: T-Shirt for the Apache OpenOffice Project +1 T-shirts are a a cheap but effective way to motivate committers. ----- Original Message ----- ... > > Hi at all > > At the old OOo project, we have had T-Shirts. There was existing many > different > versions of OOo shirts. Moastly they was payed, designed and distributed by > one > of the OOo related associations. Same Country have had also Fan Shirts wich > are > selled by OOo related NGO's. One T-Shirt was donated by SUN Microsystems. To > have a T-Shirt is a nice thing, if you go to represent AOO at a Event. The > old > shirts are compleetly outdated. (the old dark blue logo and a logo from a > company who is no longer existent) I realy like to have a new Shirt. > Samething > like a Committer Shirt, what you think about? > > But there are different problems. Since we have not our own monay at Apache, > it's hard to solve the payment question. As far as I know, it's not > allowd to put a sponsor on the shirt. I think you hit Traidmarke Issues from > the > ASF with it. And a Shirt will cost money. Maybe we can offer the Sponsor a > Blog > Post. > > The other topic is to distribute the Shirt all over the world. I realy like > the > Idea, but I'm simply on the wrong place to do samething like that. > Switzerland is one of the moast expensive country in the world. Yes, I can do > it > from here, but finaly, it costs a load more then from a other country. > > I would realy like to have one for the ApacheCon Europe > > What do you think about? > > Greetings Raphael > > > -- My private Homepage: http://www.raphaelbircher.ch/ >