Partick, I am not a legal expert to answer the trademark question. I will consult the trademarks team for this.
However, it is the PMC's responsibility to oversee the usage of "Apache Pulsar" that follows the ASF policy. - Sijie On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 5:23 PM Patrick McFadin <pmcfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > "Apache Pulsar Community" is not the PMC and that is 100% not the "Apache > Way™" If it said "Apache Pulsar Project" then I think that would be a > mischaracterization. I've helped run over 500 Apache-related meetups over > the past 10 years and myself and other organizers have always been careful > to use the word "community" as the people and not the project. > > This makes the PMC look like some sort of powerful ruling body, which it > isn't. The PMC can't tell people that they aren't a part of the community. > How would you add this to your board report? There is nothing here that > appears as a trademark violation or implication of ownership. > > Patrick > > On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 4:57 PM Matteo Merli <mme...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 4:26 PM Aaron Williams <aa...@wi5s.com> wrote: > > > Meetups and the Umbrella Group- > > > Having an Umbrella Group also prevents or at least makes it tougher for > > the > > > “wild west” of meetup organizations to happen. For Apache Hadoop, both > > > Cloudera and Hortonworks sponsored competing meetups early on, which > led > > to > > > tons of problems for that community around vendor neutrality. We can > > avoid > > > this can of worms for Apache Pulsar by providing oversight and guidance > > > from the beginning. > > > > > > Thus, given the above and that it is better for the organizers, better > > for > > > the PMC’s responsibility to oversee vendor neutrality, and better for > > users > > > and potential users to manage meetups with a little more structure, I > > would > > > recommend that the PMC go forward with giving its blessing to the > > Umbrella > > > model. > > > > Aaron, > > > > Several PMC members have already asked you to rename the meetup groups > > you have created, because using "Apache Pulsar Community" as the > > organizer represents a big mischaracterization that wants to give the > > impression that the Pulsar PMC is behind these meetups. > > > > I believe any other discussion around meetups cannot prescind from that > > fact. > > > > Matteo > > > > -- > > Matteo Merli > > <mme...@apache.org> > > >
