New trademark approval policy

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 08:37:47AM +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> back in April the board approved a new spins approval policy [1]. I have
> put that proposal into the wiki [2] but AFAIK other than that nothing
> has happened.
> 
> I hereby ask the board to 
>      1. appoint SIGs responsible for various trademark approvals
>      2. contact these SIGs and ask them to come up with a list of items
>         or a SOP for approval
>      3. supervise and coordinate the creation of the checklists/SOPs
>      4. collect the answers from the SIGs and put them into the wiki
>      5. clarify the relationship of this proposal and the media handout
>         requirements. According to Jared they would replace the media
>         handout requirements
>      6. clarify the scope of the new policy. While the old media handout
>         requirements only covered physical media for distribution and
>         had nothing to do with the spins process this new policy only
>         deals with what exactly? For example I am sure we want to
>         involve the design team for media for distribution, but I don't
>         think they need to approve a spin that has no artwork other than
>         the one on the spins page.
> 
> Note: The board's trac is only open for board members and individual
> tickets are visible for the people who filed them. This being said I
> wonder if it is really the right place for a transparent process like a
> trademark approval.
> 
> 
> [1]
> http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-board-meeting/2011-04-26/fedora_board.2011-04-26-16.00.log.html#l-32
> [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Trademark_approval_policy
> 
jsmith: How does this interact with the action item you took at the meeting?
Were you anticipating doing all of this or does your item just fit in as one
step among these steps?

-Toshio
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