I've made two posts on this list in the past couple of days regarding
the rising ACL effort and my concerns about it.
I *desperately* want this kind of grass-roots enthusiast community
effort. I do NOT want to kill it. But I've learned from Fedora user
groups that allowing any random stranger to start up a group, using our
Trademarks, to promote whatever message comes into their head, is
*going* to bite us in the butt, sooner rather than later.
This is *NOT* about the Indore group and their recent event. Rather it's
about the future. The groups currently out there are full of experienced
Apache people. All well and good. The second wave will be full of people
wanting to promote their business, or their personal brand, using our
name, and spreading misinformation about Apache under our official banner.
We *cannot* allow this to happen. To do so would be a dereliction of our
duty as a PMC. We must plan for the bad actors, even while enabling the
good actors.
I'm not entirely sure what I'm proposing, but I think that requiring, at
this stage, at least one Member to be involved in the creation and
mentoring of a new group, is a reasonable path.
A brief discussion of these issues has occurred on the
priv...@community.apache.org mailing list, where I was rightfully called
out for having the conversation in private rather than in public. So,
moving the conversation here, as is appropriate.
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Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com
http://rcbowen.com/
@rbowen
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