In the Joomla Leadership Team Google groups on August 26, 2011, Ryan Ozimek said (emphasis mine):
At the OSM Summit a few weeks ago, we spent considerable time brainstorming the pain points that are faced with respect to the trademark processes and policies. Fixing this broken process is our top priority as a team, and a key measure of success for me as an executive in 2011.
With this in mind, I’ve asked our Acting Trademark Team Leader, Jacques Rentzke, to continue working as quickly as possible to improve our trademark policy’s documentation, volunteer support, examples, translation, and guidelines. I will personally be lending a hand in this process and providing oversight. I know that all members of OSM will be lending a hand as well.
Then on October 25, 2011 in the Joomla Leadership Team Google group, Ryan Ozimek laid out a schedule for his trademark process:
OSM Board and Trademark Team Input - October 17 - October 28, 2011
Leadership Team Input - October 29 - November 11, 2011
Community Input - November 12 - November 25, 2011
Evaluate Input, Create Final Draft for Community Input - November 26, 2011 - December 10, 2011
OSM Board Vote for Ratification of New Trademark Policy - December 17, 2011
According to the OSM Board minutes of November 15, 2011:
c. Trademark process discussion (Ryan)
Action item: Ryan will distribute a refactored version that includes the current feedback from the Trademark team and Leadership teams, to the leadership for further comment. After this has been circulated internally, Ryan will provide the updated policy for community feedback.Then again in the OSM Board minutes of December 21, 2011:
b. Trademark Process Discussion
Ryan has another draft coming out early in the New Year based on the leadership comments added over the past 2 weeks.Yet again in the OSM Board minutes of January 24, 2012:
b. Trademark Process Discussion
Ryan provided a last draft of thoughts on the TM discussion. People have been providing feedback, but if anyone has anything to add please do. Ryan would like to wrap it up by the end of this week.And finally in the OSM Board minutes of February 21, 2012:
a. License, Trademark, and Copyright Committee
Members have the link to a document outlining a timeline for goals and action items. It needs to be finalized by the summit. The dates may need some adjusting.So far, this start and stop deliberation on trademark issues has taken 180 days (5 months and 27 days) and we are not done yet. Though, I hate to say, it looks like the community isn't going to get much of a realistic chance to weigh in on the final outcome.
What else are we waiting on? The last partial financial reports we have seen were at the end of October, 2011. It is now past mid-April, 2012. No end of year report. But wait, there's more. We have been led to believe there will be a blog about the finances. How do we know that?
In the OSM Board minutes for January 24, 2012:
II. Treasurer's report
Paul will be writing a blog to summarize the 2011 finances.And, again in the OSM Board minutes for February 21, 2102:
II. Treasurer's report
A budget blog is coming soon.Of course, that was February 21st. It is now April 17, 2012. Couple more months and we will have traveled six months into the new budget year without hearing anything about the past year. Lots of talk - little action.
Oh, I may have said that too soon. There was an interesting tidbit in the OSM Board minutes for February, 21, 2012. No explanation given as to the reason the tidbit was included.
II. Treasurer's report
There is a 10% limit to tax deductible contributions. Excess can be carried over to the following year.Sounds like the board is exploring giving away some of their accumulated cash to a charitable organization. Gee, I thought the purpose of getting the cash was to support the activities of the Joomla! Project. Does this mean the board thinks they have accumulated too much?
I encourage all of you to read the two petitions linked here and sign them. It is time OSM heard from its constituents!
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So in page 5 of 6 totaling 155 comments, I was forced into the following statement: Enough! The moderators have been very patient with this thread. There are 6 reports on the appearance of people being attacked that we haven't taken action on as of yet. We really want to encourage discussion - we do not want personal exchanges to interfere with those discussions. I encourage Jenny to stay to participate in that aspect of this thread. Any further degeneration and in my "official" moderator hat, I will lock the thread.
Subsequently supported by Brad. Jacques suggested the thread be locked on February 4, 2010 and I locked it and stated that any moderator including myself would reopen on request. Reopened and a subsequent 4 posts afterward.
So, Andrew, you really want to make this thread the cornerstone of your objection?
My last reply to your comment was too long for the character restrictions in effect. So, I cut the offending parts and pasted them back into the comment on the back-end. No character limitations there.
The goal, of course, is to preserve comment blocks for your entertaining repartee. However, if you prefer, I can simply use another comment block for the excess.
Note: If I set-up a front-end login, as admin, I wouldn't have any of those restrictions. Not something I want to do.
The articles go out in twitter and to Facebook. Is there something you said that you don't want out in the twitter feed?
Guess I assumed that if you are willing to make a comment on a website that doesn't promise you any confidentiality or privacy that you would naturally assume that it might be available across the entire net.
I realize you won't be able to reply because of the 10 comment limit. Please use my contact us to send me an email if needed.