Open Stack

On 10/22/2014 05:09 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Hey members of the TC,
>
> As you know we'll have a joint Board/TC meeting in the afternoon of
> Sunday, November 2 in Paris. Is there any specific topic you'd like to
> see discussed there ?

I'd like to have a discussion with the board about ways in which the 
process by which we check for name/copyright issues for new projects can 
be streamlined.

This comes out of Thierry's excellent feedback here:

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/126582/2/reference/openstack-projects.rst

Where he says "Name checks (calling something openstack/* engages the 
Foundation, like it or not)".

In my attempts to rework the charter of the TC and get us out of the 
game of picking winners and losers in technical spaces, one of the ideas 
is to make the process by which projects can join the openstack/ code 
namespace a transparent and objective process -- i.e. an impartial group 
can verify that the proposing project meets a set of clear, objectives 
criteria and then add them into the openstack/ code namespace.

One of these objective criteria, as Thierry points out, needs to involve 
clearance that the project's name does not have any copyright or 
trademark baggage associated with it. But, right now, this process is in 
the hands of the Foundation (with the general counsel I believe?) and 
can be a very lengthy process.

I'd like to talk about ways we can shorten this process.

Best,
-jay