[openstack-dev] Poll: S Release Naming

Dmitry Tantsur dtantsur at redhat.com
Wed Mar 14 12:39:42 UTC 2018


On 03/14/2018 01:33 PM, Frank Kloeker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> it's critical, I would say. They canceled the registration just today [1], but 
> there are still copyrights for name parts like  "S-Bahn Halleipzig". I would 
> remove it from the voting list to prevent us from trouble. S-Bahn is not really 
> a location in Berlin. If it does, S-Bahn is broken ;-)

And it often is /me looks at S42 schedule :D

Actually, I agree, a means of transport is not quite a location.

> 
> kind regards
> 
> Frank (from Berlin)
> 
> [1] https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/registerHABM?AKZ=007392194
> 
> Am 2018-03-14 13:14, schrieb Jeremy Freudberg:
>> Hi Dmitry,
>>
>> According to Wikipedia [0] the trademark was removed. The citation [1]
>> is actually inaccurate; it was not the final ruling. Regardless [2]
>> seems to reflect the final result which is that the trademark is
>> cancelled.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> [0]
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-train#Germany,_Austria_and_Switzerland
>> (end of paragraph
>> [1]
>> http://juris.bundespatentgericht.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bpatg&Art=en&Datum=Aktuell&nr=23159&pos=1&anz=323&Blank=1.pdf 
>>
>> [2]
>> http://www.eurailpress.de/news/bahnbetrieb/single-view/news/bundesgerichtshof-db-verliert-marke-s-bahn.html 
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 7:50 AM, Dmitry Tantsur <dtantsur at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I suspect that S-Bahn may be a protected (copyright, trademark,
>>> whatever) name. Did you have a chance to check it?
>>>
>>> On 03/14/2018 12:58 AM, Paul Belanger wrote:
>>>
>>>> Greetings all,
>>>>
>>>> It is time again to cast your vote for the naming of the S
>>>> Release. This time
>>>> is little different as we've decided to use a public polling
>>>> option over per
>>>> user private URLs for voting. This means, everybody should proceed
>>>> to use the
>>>> following URL to cast their vote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>> https://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/vote.pl?id=E_40b95cb2be3fcdf1&akey=8cfdc1f5df5fe4d3 
>>
>>>> [1]
>>>>
>>>> Because this is a public poll, results will currently be only
>>>> viewable by myself
>>>> until the poll closes. Once closed, I'll post the URL making the
>>>> results
>>>> viewable to everybody. This was done to avoid everybody seeing the
>>>> results while
>>>> the public poll is running.
>>>>
>>>> The poll will officially end on 2018-03-21 23:59:59[1], and
>>>> results will be
>>>> posted shortly after.
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>>
>>>
>> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/release-naming.rst 
>>
>>>> [2]
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> According to the Release Naming Process, this poll is to determine
>>>> the
>>>> community preferences for the name of the R release of OpenStack.
>>>> It is
>>>> possible that the top choice is not viable for legal reasons, so
>>>> the second or
>>>> later community preference could wind up being the name.
>>>>
>>>> Release Name Criteria
>>>>
>>>> Each release name must start with the letter of the ISO basic
>>>> Latin alphabet
>>>> following the initial letter of the previous release, starting
>>>> with the
>>>> initial release of "Austin". After "Z", the next name should start
>>>> with
>>>> "A" again.
>>>>
>>>> The name must be composed only of the 26 characters of the ISO
>>>> basic Latin
>>>> alphabet. Names which can be transliterated into this character
>>>> set are also
>>>> acceptable.
>>>>
>>>> The name must refer to the physical or human geography of the
>>>> region
>>>> encompassing the location of the OpenStack design summit for the
>>>> corresponding release. The exact boundaries of the geographic
>>>> region under
>>>> consideration must be declared before the opening of nominations,
>>>> as part of
>>>> the initiation of the selection process.
>>>>
>>>> The name must be a single word with a maximum of 10 characters.
>>>> Words that
>>>> describe the feature should not be included, so "Foo City" or "Foo
>>>> Peak"
>>>> would both be eligible as "Foo".
>>>>
>>>> Names which do not meet these criteria but otherwise sound really
>>>> cool
>>>> should be added to a separate section of the wiki page and the TC
>>>> may make
>>>> an exception for one or more of them to be considered in the
>>>> Condorcet poll.
>>>> The naming official is responsible for presenting the list of
>>>> exceptional
>>>> names for consideration to the TC before the poll opens.
>>>>
>>>> Exact Geographic Region
>>>>
>>>> The Geographic Region from where names for the S release will come
>>>> is Berlin
>>>>
>>>> Proposed Names
>>>>
>>>> Spree (a river that flows through the Saxony, Brandenburg and
>>>> Berlin states of
>>>> Germany)
>>>>
>>>> SBahn (The Berlin S-Bahn is a rapid transit system in and around
>>>> Berlin)
>>>>
>>>> Spandau (One of the twelve boroughs of Berlin)
>>>>
>>>> Stein (Steinstraße or "Stein Street" in Berlin, can also be
>>>> conveniently
>>>> abbreviated as 🍺)
>>>>
>>>> Steglitz (a locality in the South Western part of the city)
>>>>
>>>> Springer (Berlin is headquarters of Axel Springer publishing
>>>> house)
>>>>
>>>> Staaken (a locality within the Spandau borough)
>>>>
>>>> Schoenholz (A zone in the Niederschönhausen district of Berlin)
>>>>
>>>> Shellhaus (A famous office building)
>>>>
>>>> Suedkreuz ("southern cross" - a railway station in
>>>> Tempelhof-Schöneberg)
>>>>
>>>> Schiller (A park in the Mitte borough)
>>>>
>>>> Saatwinkel (The name of a super tiny beach, and its surrounding
>>>> neighborhood)
>>>> (The adjective form, Saatwinkler is also a really cool
>>>> bridge but
>>>> that form is too long)
>>>>
>>>> Sonne (Sonnenallee is the name of a large street in Berlin
>>>> crossing the former
>>>> wall, also translates as "sun")
>>>>
>>>> Savigny (Common place in City-West)
>>>>
>>>> Soorstreet (Street in Berlin restrict Charlottenburg)
>>>>
>>>> Solar (Skybar in Berlin)
>>>>
>>>> See (Seestraße or "See Street" in Berlin)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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>>
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