Oversight Board/2009/Meeting Minutes-2009-11-20

In attendance:

SLOB members: walter, tomeu, cjb. SeanDaly, mchua, Canoeberry

A number of community members attended the meeting.

Agenda

 * 1) SLOBs mailing list protocol
 * 2) Team mailing list
 * 3) SoaS DP report
 * 4) Trademark policy

SLOBs mailing list protocol
We passed a motion (6 yes, 1 not present):

MOTION: Close the slobs@ list to just SLOBs, move current slobs@ traffic to iaep@ with a [SLOBS] subject line tag where at all possible.

Action: Walter agreed to notify the community and update the slobs@ list.

Team mailing list
In Bernie's absence, we deferred this discussion until the next meeting.

SoaS DP report
We passed a motion (6 yes, 1 not present):

MOTION: Give a two-week deadline to the Soas DP

Action: Walter agreed to notify the DP

Trademark policy
We had a general discussion of trademark policy:


 * Discussion of policy for using Sugar trademark
 * At what point does a modified distribution no longer meet community standards?
 * At what point does a modified distribution no longer become viable in terms of the community's ability to support it?
 * Where is the line the community draws between what can be called Sugar and what can not be called Sugar?
 * Is there a standard mechanism for modifying a Sugar distribution that would keep it within the bounds of community standards?
 * What are the guidelines and procedures for arbitrating these questions?
 * (See Secondary trademark usage guidelines, Trademark guidelines and Business website trademark guidelines for background on how Fedora handles these issues, as well as Fedora Remix guidelines)
 * (openSUSE is more restrictive regarding using their trademark with a remix: OpenSUSE Trademark Guidelines)

Action: Walter agreed to bring the discussion to iaep@ and each of us agreed to look into the policies currently in use by other communities, e.g., Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Mozilla, etc.

Next meeting
Friday, 04 December 2009 15:00 UTC

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