On 9/26/2012 4:58 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
Another one of those "larger ecosystem" things I'll be pushing on.
If you recall the legacy OpenOffice.org project had a webpage that
listed various consultants who provided services for OpenOffice. We
took it down because it was very out of date and we didn't have time
(at that time) to figure out the policy implications and update the
content. Well guess what? I have time now.
====> A draft of a proposed approach is on the wiki here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Draft+--+Apache+OpenOffice+Consultants+Directory
<====
...
I'd suggest folks read the draft-but-pretty-close document about Apache
Project Corporate Recognition Best Practices here when thinking about
how AOO wants to organize web pages like this:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/linking
This is something that we haven't necessarily had a clearly written
policy for all projects in the past. In fact, within basic trademark
and "projects must be independent" guidelines, there's a lot of room for
different projects to approach this (or not bother with it) in different
ways.
We've tried to lay out the basic issues in the page above, although I
know there are several areas that need better explanations, or that
we're missing some important point.
I think the key things are:
- Respect Apache marks fully (both by our projects, and others)
- Maintain the ASF's public charity mission; avoid appearances of
endorsement or affiliation
- Ensure the project is being managed independently, *and* that
independence is clear in public perception
- Be factual, relevant, fair, and consistent in how listings are
done/removed/etc.
Oh, and automating (yay XSLT!) pages like this will be a big win for
maintenance.
- Shane
