Board Meeting Reminder

[Frank Warmerdam]

Folks,

This is to remind everyone that we have a board meeting tomorrow at
the usual time.  The agenda can be found at:

   http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Eighteenth_Board_Meeting#Agenda

In follow up to the discussions at the F2F VisCom has prepared
some documents for us with regard to trademark and logo usage
guidelines.  Below is a summary from Michael.

Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
 > Frank:
 >
 >>From this morning's meeting, three requested actions for the board:
 >
 >
 > (1) Review VisCom's trademark usage guidelines
 > (http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/TrademarkGuidelines) and take one of
 > the following actions:
 >
 >   - approve as-is to be official OSGeo policy
 >   - return to VisCom with minor semantic changes requested
 >   - return to VisCom with major semantic changes requested
 >
 > Note that VisCom plans to to significantly improve the FAQ
 > (http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/TrademarkFAQ), but keep within the
 > policies in the main document (and inherited from Mozilla).
 >
 >
 > (2) Resolve the long-standing "TM" question -- specifically, should we
 > obtain formal trademark status for key OSGeo branding elements?  VisCom
 > is in favor of doing this.  This action may require moderate expense and
 > use of a lawyer, but it out of VisCom's scope.  We suggest three
 > trademark items:
 >
 >   - the name "The Open Source Geospatial Foundation"
 >   - the name "OSGeo"
 >   - the compass logo
 >
 > Note: it is not clear if the word "THE" is in our formal full name or
 > not.  VisCom needs to know this, to get our trademark guidelines
 > document correct.  Someone, probably a legal person, would know this.
 >
 > Note: depending on the disposition of item (3) below, our actual logo
 > might need undergo some small changes before we formally register it.
 >
 >
 > (3) Approve our request for $7200 for logo and branding work,
 > http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/LogoProposal.  Note that if we are going
 > to do (2), then the logo rework will include addition of a (TM) to it.
 >
 >
 > Thanks.
 >
 > -mpg
 >
 >



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