Hello ComDev, I'm the Apache Solr PMC chair and I have some brading/trademark questions pertaining to policies around event organization and ASF rules of such.
I've read: [1] Policy for Event names using Apache marks: https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/events.html#events [2] Approval of small Apache-related events: https://community.apache.org/events/small-events.html Question: * At ASF Community-over-Code, if someone organizes a Birds of a Feather for Solr and it gets onto the event schedule, should it be necessary to get the Solr PMC's approval beforehand? Would it matter if the person who arranged it is a PMC member themselves or not? Please ultimately explain the answer with a rationale against the current policy. It's unclear if the BoF *itself* is a "small Apache-related event" or if the fact that it's at an ASF ticketed conference overrides because then the policy wouldn't apply at all (nothing is "3rd party"). * If such a BoF were to be organized at a non-Apache conference (e.g. Berlin Buzzwords), presumably Solr PMC permission is needed as specified by [2]. An unclear aspect of the policy is what the "event" is -- is it the entire conference or could it be the proposed BoF talk as well, even though it's composed as part of another event? If we're only looking at the BoF/talk itself, then would it be "3rd party" if the primary speaker is a PMC member? The text at https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/resources (search for "third party") seems to contrast PMC members & committers in a way to imply they are *not* third party. ~ David Smiley Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
