Re: GNOME trademarks

2010-12-08 Thread Murray Cumming
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 10:08 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: and also this second live GNOME trademark: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=docstate=4001:mi6n4v.2.40 The second one

Re: GNOME trademarks

2010-12-08 Thread Andy Wingo
On Wed 08 Dec 2010 10:00, Murray Cumming murr...@murrayc.com writes: If we ever try to sell nuts then we may have a problem. Presumably we may however offer nuts at an event, though without perhaps labelling them as GNOME nuts. We may feel free to label the attendees as such though, as it is a

Re: GNOME trademarks

2010-12-08 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 12/08/10 05:34, Andy Wingo wrote: On Wed 08 Dec 2010 10:00, Murray Cumming murr...@murrayc.com writes: If we ever try to sell nuts then we may have a problem. Presumably we may however offer nuts at an event, though without perhaps labelling them as GNOME nuts. We may feel free to

Re: GNOME trademarks

2010-12-08 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Murray Cumming wrote: http://www.gnomehazelnutfactory.com/ I don't believe there's generally any problem with two companies having the same name for a product if those products are so different. If we ever try to sell nuts then we may have a problem. Of course there isn't - trademarks

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - November 11, 2010

2010-12-08 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Brian Cameron wrote: * Joanmarie Diggs joined the meeting to give an update on GNOME accessibility. snip o A $40,000 budget for FY2012 would help the a11y project. o The GNOME Foundation currently has a $20,000 a11y budget. Half is allocated for

Re: GNOME trademarks

2010-12-08 Thread Frederic Muller
On 12/08/2010 07:35 PM, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Murray Cumming wrote: http://www.gnomehazelnutfactory.com/ I don't believe there's generally any problem with two companies having the same name for a product if those products are so different. If we ever try to sell nuts then we may have a

Re: GNOME's logo been incorrectly used

2010-12-08 Thread Brian Cameron
Dave: On 12/ 8/10 07:46 AM, Dave Neary wrote: Also, there's a decent copyright claim there by the icon author, if his artwork is being reused without his knowledge or consent, unless of course there's a GNOME foot in the wild somewhere under FDL or a CC license. The GNOME Foot could only be

Re: GNOME's logo been incorrectly used

2010-12-08 Thread Martin Jensen
Maybe the suspected abuser struck a deal to add the logo to his advertising as a way of promoting the OS and the desktop. Martin - Original Message - From: Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.com To: Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org Cc: gnome-l...@gnome.org; Foundation-List

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - November 11, 2010

2010-12-08 Thread Brian Cameron
Stormy: Attending * Stormy Peters I was not there but I think about you all lots! Oops, corrected in the Wiki minutes. Brian ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org

Re: GNOME's logo been incorrectly used

2010-12-08 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Brian Cameron wrote: The GNOME Foot could only be licensed by the copyright holder. I'd think any licenses assigned without permission by the copyright holder would not be considered valid. So, how can there be images in the wild? I'd think the copyright holder should know how it has

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - November 11, 2010

2010-12-08 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hi All. Based on the Orca (or even a more general a11y) roadmap, it may be possible to get some funding from companies or associations interested in seeing Orca get better (although a lot of the associations seem to be focussing more on NVDA because it works on Windows). Where is the Orca

Re: GNOME trademarks

2010-12-08 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Oregon hazelnuts are awesome ;) sri On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:05 AM, Frederic Muller fr...@gnome.org wrote: On 12/08/2010 07:35 PM, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Murray Cumming wrote: http://www.gnomehazelnutfactory.com/ I don't believe there's generally any problem with two companies having

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - November 11, 2010

2010-12-08 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
CCing the list as you replied to the copy of my message which never made it to the list because I sent it via the wrong address. :-/ Sorry about that. On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 21:01 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: Hi Joanmarie, What I'm getting at is, if there were features which were particularly

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - November 11, 2010

2010-12-08 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: Aha, well, yes. For starters: * Speech recognition would be useful for at least some people with print learning disabilities as well as for certain people with physical disabilities. * Caribou, especially were its functionality further expanded, would be

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - November 11, 2010

2010-12-08 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 22:58 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: Aha, well, yes. For starters: * Speech recognition would be useful for at least some people with print learning disabilities as well as for certain people with physical disabilities. * Caribou,