[OSGeo-Edu] OSGeo logo and educational material

[cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]

Hi -- we reached a lull on this discussion. Given the importance of this, I've
created a wiki page and tried to summarize - see
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_Licensing_and_Logo_Discussion

I think Ned's suggestion was important, that the use of the OSGeo logo be a
free-for-all. The suggestion by Ned and Puneet was we should develop a minimum
set of guidelines to be able to use the OSGeo logo in their content:

1. An "as-is" disclaimer given that these will not be vetted through a
peer-review process, and something stating the spirit of our effort (Dan's text
is a good start - text on the above wiki page).

2. Specific guidelines: modules go in open access repository; follows one of a
set of recommended licenses; open source geospatial technologies; what else?

3. We gratefully accept any content licensed in any way, but the ones with OSGeo
logo would have to abide by the guidelines.

If people agree, we need someone or subcommittee to take the text Dan proposed
and tweak it, along with adding other guidelines (e.g., suggested licenses).

Any volunteers? Can it be done in the next week or two so we can keep moving
forward?

Thanks all for a useful conversation...

Charlie


Quoting P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com>:

> On 6/24/08, cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu> wrote:
> > Quoting "Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)" <tmitchell at osgeo.org>:
> >
> >  > re: OSGeo branded teaching events.  Board had lots of discussion, but
> >  > were asking the conference committee to come up with some policy.
> >  > The direction EduCom takes may really help set the tone for how
> >  > "bigger" issues of policy like this are handled.
> >
> >
> > Tyler - should we in edu (A) continue this thread (or a subcommittee) to
> come up
> >  with our own suggested policy or (B) should an ad-hoc subcommittee between
> edu
> >  and the conference group be formed to develop a policy for both?
> >
> >  While I still think our edu group's primary issue is still getting *any*
> (OSGeo
> >  sanctioned or not) content up in our inventory so that people will come
> and use
> >  it, it probably is time for us to do this.
>
> I think EduCom should concentrate on getting the content developed,
> and the OSGeo Board should figure out the right mechanism to brand and
> license "official" OSGeo content, be it software, documentation or
> data.
>
> Authors should be free to chose whatever license and mechanism they
> want, but if they want the OSGeo imprimatur, they would be required to
> use the OSGeo guidelines (if OSGeo branding were to require license A,
> the authors would be required to use license A. If they decide to use
> license B, OSGeo could still host and advertise the content, but it
> wouldn't be branded OSGeo).
>
>
>
> >
> >  Cheers
> >
> >  Charlie
> >
> >
> >  >
> >  > Tyler
> >  >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Puneet Kishor
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