[OSGeo-Board] Board Meeting Reminder

[Mark Lucas]

Board Members,

My flight back was cancelled tonight.  I'll be in the air tomorrow  
and will miss the board meeting.

Mark

On Sep 28, 2006, at 4:21 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

>
> 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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