Hi Russell, Thanks for the input.
My intention with my original mail wasn't to wave you off contributing; it > was to make sure that you are aware that if you're representing the > project, you need to use our trademarks correctly. If you don't, you weaken > our claim on the *actual* trademarks. I also wanted to make sure that the > final product meets the high graphical standards that the Django community > tries to maintain. I understood, don't worry. We will have to work on both aspects. For those interested in following, this discussion was migrated to django-dev <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-developers/Km_VuDaI6rc>. Regards, Jorge On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 1:49 AM, Russell Keith-Magee < russ...@keith-magee.com> wrote: > Hi Jorge, > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Jorge Cardoso Leitão < > jorgecarlei...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Russell, >> >> Thank you for raising these concerns here. >> >> It would be a pleasure to me to represent the Django project but I'm not >> sure that this is the case here, and surely was not my intention! >> >> That post was added as a SO member who is thrilled about a project and >> wanted to promote it to other SO members to contribute, not as the project >> representative. >> >> I see two questions here: >> >> 1. Does Django foundation has trademark concerns about it being >> publicised by SO members to promote contributing to Django in SO? >> >> Since you raised some concerns and I'm no legal expert, I retracted the >> post. Maybe this should be clarified at some point. >> > > The legal standing of the Django trademark is well documented, and there's > a FAQ for how you can use it; see: > > http://djangoproject.com/trademarks/ > > The intention of this license is *not* to prevent people from using the > Django trademark to represent the community. We *want* people to use the > Django trademark. However, we have to make sure the trademark isn't left > vulnerable to exploitation. > > >> 2. Does Django project wants to participate in this program? (in the >> representative sense) >> >> It interpret your reply as that at least you don't oppose, so I try to >> bring this to django-dev after 1.7 is out. >> > > It certainly looks like an interesting opportunity. What we really need is > a volunteer to drive the effort. You look like you've volunteered for the > job :-) > > I also wouldn't wait for 1.7 - it looks like this is a time sensitive, and > it's difficult to give a firm deadline for the release of 1.7 final. > > My intention with my original mail wasn't to wave you off contributing; it > was to make sure that you are aware that if you're representing the > project, you need to use our trademarks correctly. If you don't, you weaken > our claim on the *actual* trademarks. I also wanted to make sure that the > final product meets the high graphical standards that the Django community > tries to maintain. > > So - please - feel free to contribute an ad to this program; just keep in > mind the two points that I mentioned in my original email. > > Yours, > Russ Magee %-) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-users/OOGMtm9KMcM/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAJxq84-KFbM%3D%2B_f6Om20SkwTNYGtoeropw%3DuY58Dd6X_rcv56A%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAJxq84-KFbM%3D%2B_f6Om20SkwTNYGtoeropw%3DuY58Dd6X_rcv56A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAOYPqDDTZf93NMiu0AHsb1eioE3r6ejS4PuZtWNTS%3DVK-4_PLw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
