My fear is that with all the concerns that given all the concerns that have been raised, the board my not accept it come time for graduation.
During incubation, presumably the project will be taking steps to establish the Mysos name/brand. If at graduation time the board rejects the name, the project will have to change the name and work to re-establish the associated brand. That's not trivial. I'm just saying that if the project can take steps now to eliminate that possibility, it could save the project some pain in the future. I don't think the naming issue should block Mysos from entering incubation; I just think the project should address the issue early. Maybe make the podling name search step a first priority upon entering incubation? In retrospect, with Storm we waited far too long to deal with the name search (my fault), basically doing it right before graduation. At the time I thought "Holy shit, what if we have to change the name now?" Luckily we didn't have to. It would have sucked. I don't want to see that happen to Mysos. -Taylor > On May 30, 2015, at 5:54 PM, Chris Aniszczyk <caniszc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Again, how isn't this a viable name? > > There is no trademark on the word Mysos and it's not like we didn't do our > homework before bringing the project to Apache. > > You're welcome to consult TESS in the US ( http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/) and > the EU equivalent (https://oami.europa.eu/eSearch/#basic/1+1+1+1/mysos) > > Thanks. > >> On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 3:05 PM, P. Taylor Goetz <ptgo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> It looks like the project already has a Twitter account and a logo [1]. >> >> One thing to keep in mind is how difficult it can be to re-brand something >> after a brand has been established. >> >> IMHO, it would be best to figure out a viable name as early as possible to >> avoid having to re-brand later in order to graduate. Based on this and >> other threads, it seems entirely possible that the board may not accept >> "Mysos" as a TLP name. >> >> -Taylor >> >> [1] https://twitter.com/apachemysos >> >> >>>> On May 30, 2015, at 11:21 AM, Chris Aniszczyk <caniszc...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Personally, I would let the project decide how to move forward with the >>> name than a bunch of us who aren't trademark lawyers. If it was something >>> obvious, than that would make sense, but I briefly consulted our legal >> team >>> internally and the name was cleared for usage since there are no marks >>> registered and there was no likelihood of confusion. >>> >>> >>> >>>>> On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Joe Brockmeier <j...@zonker.net> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, May 29, 2015, at 12:00 PM, Jake Farrell wrote: >>>>> Bringing back comments from a separate thread on board@ >>>>> >>>>> Sorry to see your vote of a -1 on the proposal due to the name. This >> was >>>>> raised during the discussion phase and as stated in the discussion we >> are >>>>> not against a name change, but saw it as something that was not a >> blocker >>>>> to entering incubation. >>>>> >>>>> We did an initial name search on our own and there are no collisions on >>>>> Mysos externally and we have two Mesos PMC members on the project that >>>>> did >>>>> not see any problems with the name, Dave and Vinod are both on the >> Mesos >>>>> PMC. >>>>> A note has been sent to the Mesos PMC private@ list regarding the >> Mysos >>>>> proposal and the project name and asked that comments be brought back >> to >>>>> here. >>>> >>>> I agree with Bertrand - might as well change the name *now* rather than >>>> dealing with it at a later date. >>>> >>>> AIUI, Mysos is a combination of MySQL and Mesos -- which also could mean >>>> potential TM headaches for the podling. >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> >>>> jzb >>>> -- >>>> Joe Brockmeier >>>> j...@zonker.net >>>> Twitter: @jzb >>>> http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Chris Aniszczyk >>> http://aniszczyk.org >>> +1 512 961 6719 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > -- > Cheers, > > Chris Aniszczyk > http://aniszczyk.org > +1 512 961 6719 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
