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
- SLOBs mailing list protocol
- Team mailing list
- SoaS DP report
- 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