[OpenStack-DefCore] Suggestions on trademark changes, possible meeting 10/2 or earlier

Simon Anderson simon at dreamhost.com
Tue Sep 23 05:43:34 UTC 2014


>
> Hi Rob, I may have heard a different output from the Board call - which
> was that the Foundation staff would work on some multi-TM proposals and
> share them with the DefCore committee/Board. So Jonathan, Mark and Lauren
> may already be working on them.
>
> Personally, I think having more than one trademark usage doesn't undermine
> the great work of DefCore so far. My thoughts on a simple multi-TM
> structure that might serve the market are:
>
>    - OpenStack Software (TM) for distributions, that would include all
>    designated sections and core capabilities;
>    - OpenStack Compute (TM) for services running all designated sections
>    and core capabilities *except for* OpenStack Storage designated
>    sections/core capabilities;
>    - OpenStack Storage (TM) for services running the object storage
>    designated sections and core capabilities (essentially SWIFT).
>
>
>
>
> Best,
> Simon
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:09 PM, <Rob_Hirschfeld at dell.com> wrote:
>
>>  All,
>>
>>
>>
>> Last Thursday, the board did not act on any of our recommendations.  The
>> Board is reconsidering one of the guiding principles from Hong Kong –
>> DefCore is trying to define a minimum base definition for OpenStack.
>> Instead, they’ve asked us for multiple Trademark proposals.
>>
>>
>>
>> ACTION ITEM: I’d be interested in hearing suggestions from the committee
>> that we can use as the basis for a etherpad.
>>
>>
>>
>> Towards that end, I think we should schedule a meeting on Thursday 10/2.
>> I’m open to having a working session before that to brainstorm options
>> (possibly with Mark or Jonathan).
>>
>>
>>
>> I’d ask you to consider two items in preparation:
>>
>> 1)      Sean Dague’s Layers Model:
>> https://dague.net/2014/08/26/openstack-as-layers/
>>
>> 2)      Consideration of OpenStack as a product or “big tent” which
>> seems to be part of the OpenStackSV output: Monty
>> http://inaugust.com/post/108 and Randy
>> http://siliconangle.com/blog/2014/09/17/the-achilles-heel-of-openstack-is-lack-of-product-leadership-openstacksv/
>>
>>
>>
>> Rob
>>
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