There will be a pretty vast distribution difference between the main Apache site vs. a sub-page of the Thrift incubator project that I think mitigates this risk. I don't think any company willing to pay for placement on the main site would be satisfied with placement on the Thrift page.
Also, in this case, the intention is to go the other direction -- not to give publicity to 3rd party brands via association with Apache, but rather to help endorse the credibility of Thrift via these companies' use of the code. The aim is really to help further the goals of the Apache Thrift project, not to advertise for companies, and I'm pretty confident the design will be interpreted as such. As you suggest, I'll ping the PRC about this and see what they say. Cheers, Mark -----Original Message----- From: Upayavira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Company logos for Thrift site On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 17:16 -0700, Mark Slee wrote: > Hi all, I'm revamping our incubator site and would like to include a > section about the companies which use Thrift. Given that it's open > source and anyone can search the committers list, I don't see any > security/privacy problems with this -- but I did want to run this by > everyone first. Here's the current list that I have: > > Facebook > PowerSet > RapLeaf > iMeem > AmieStreet > reCaptcha Personally, I'd be okay with name mentions, but not logos. I'd run it by the public relations committee (prc at apache.org). My reasoning is that our sponsors pay major $$$ to get logos onto our main site, so I'm uncomfortable giving logos away for free. Regards, Upayavira
