<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>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:</div><div><ul><li>OpenStack Software (TM) for distributions, that would include all designated sections and core capabilities;</li><li>OpenStack Compute (TM) for services running all designated sections and core capabilities *except for* OpenStack Storage designated sections/core capabilities;</li><li>OpenStack Storage (TM) for services running the object storage designated sections and core capabilities (essentially SWIFT).</li></ul><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br>Best,</div><div>Simon<br></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:09 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Rob_Hirschfeld@dell.com" target="_blank">Rob_Hirschfeld@dell.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">ACTION ITEM: I’d be interested in hearing suggestions from the committee that we can use as the basis for a etherpad.
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<p class="MsoNormal">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).<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’d ask you to consider two items in preparation:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u><span>1)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><u></u>Sean Dague’s Layers Model: <a href="https://dague.net/2014/08/26/openstack-as-layers/" target="_blank">
https://dague.net/2014/08/26/openstack-as-layers/</a> <u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u><span>2)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><u></u>Consideration of OpenStack as a product or “big tent” which seems to be part of the OpenStackSV output: Monty
<a href="http://inaugust.com/post/108" target="_blank">http://inaugust.com/post/108</a> and Randy
<a href="http://siliconangle.com/blog/2014/09/17/the-achilles-heel-of-openstack-is-lack-of-product-leadership-openstacksv/" target="_blank">
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2014/09/17/the-achilles-heel-of-openstack-is-lack-of-product-leadership-openstacksv/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">Please note, I am based in the CENTRAL (-6) time zone
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