[OpenID board] Motion: allow use of OpenID trademark on Google Code (part 1 of 2)

[David Recordon]

+1!

On May 29, 2009, at 12:30 PM, DeWitt Clinton wrote:

> FWIW, I'm all in favor of this and I'm happy to flip the bit and add  
> members to project ASAP.  I simply want to ensure that, from a  
> trademark perspective, the OIDF officially knows about and endorses  
> this use.   It's not actually granting Google any rights -- it's  
> just saying that the OIDF is cool with its members using  
> 'openid.googlecode.com' to host some work.  (So if I had a vote,  
> it'd be +1.)
>
> -DeWitt
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
> We've batted around the idea of moving the OpenID libraries to  
> Google Code for some time [1] and I'd like to make a motion to make  
> this happen.
>
> My goals are to:
> increase the visibility of and convenience of access to the OpenID  
> libraries
> increase activity and community involvement in contributions to the  
> OpenID libraries
> make use of more collaboration-friendly source control systems  
> (GitHub can be used as a feeder to the mainline Google Code repo)
> make sure that we have a transparent mechanism for recording and  
> assigning bugs (OpenIDEnabled.com's trac setup returns a 404 for the  
> login page: http://trac.openidenabled.com/trac/login, and an account  
> is required to submit new tickets)
> move away from darcs for simply checking out copies of the libraries
> etc.
> So, this motion boils down to granting Google the right to use the  
> OpenID trademark on the Google Code project.
>
> If this motion passes, Dewitt will unlock the project and assign  
> myself, Dave Recordon, Will Norris, Luke Shepard and Brian Ellin as  
> the initial project admins.
>
> I will commit to migrating the content on OpenIDEnabled.com to  
> either the Google Code wiki or the OpenID wiki itself.
>
> So, with that, I look forward to your +1's.
>
> Chris
>
> [1] http://openid.net/pipermail/board/2009-March/001964.html
>
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