[Board] so how do osgeo trademarks work?

[Jody Garnett]

That is great Shane, thanks for reaching out to us.

Your work is on https://choosealicense.com is inspirational .. literally.
We borrowed your Q&A approach to help members of the geospatial field find
appropriate open source projects:
http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/choose-a-project/

I am not quite sure what help we need, for starters I am double checking
with the board email list (and probably the secretary) what trademarks the
organization posses.

Short term goal is to have a page acknowledging trademarks used while
writing a new website. When describing our open source projects we would
like to indicate what proprietary software and file formats can be used in
a hybrid architecture, or migrated from when adopting open source.

I found the FSF take, of acknowledging trademarks being unnecessary
<https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Trademarks.html>, but that
may be too risky for us as an organization.

I will pass your http://chooseafoundation.com/ URL onto our marketing email
list, looks like it will be another great resource.

--
Jody Garnett

On 11 October 2017 at 05:16, Shane Curcuru <shane at punderthings.com> wrote:

> Hello!  Someone mentioned you were talking about trademarks and I was
> wondering if I can provide any advice (apologies for jumping into your
> board list if that's inappropriate...)
>
> I volunteer as VP, Brand Management at the ASF and wrote the trademark
> policies for Apache projects, so if folks here do have questions, I
> might be able to help.  For general info about how trademarks work with
> open source, I've collected some useful links:
>
>   https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/resources#other
>
> Separately, thru my Punderthings consultancy, I'm building up a new
> website to help open source projects understand what non-profit
> Foundations are out there to help them with governance:
>
>   http://chooseafoundation.com/
>
> If OSGeo has a documented process by which new projects can join, I'm
> happy to take a pull request to add you to the list.
>
> - Shane Curcuru
>   http://punderthings.com/
>
>
>
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