On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 09:41:12AM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 06:57 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > > I will be collecting suggestions for 1 week, so the cutoff for names > > is: > > > > May 29, 2008 > > > > Suggestions will be run through the legal queue and an election will > > happen for Fedora contributors to pick the next Fedora name. > > A little added twist here. I'd like to give the Fedora Board a chance > at culling the list a little bit before sending on to Legal. There were > a number of names that made it through the "is a" test and Legal that > might not have been the best ideas for naming a release. Add to that > the fact that Red Hat has used outside Legal to do the name clearance > the last few times and that is a measurable cost both in time and money. > The more names we ask to clear the more expensive and longer the delay > will be before we have a set to vote upon. So I am asking the Fedora > Board to review the list of names that Josh has collected and remove any > they deem not acceptable as a Fedora release name before handing it to > Legal. > > (Note, I haven't yet directly talked to the board about this, so I'm > just assuming that they'll be on... board... with this.) Seems a very reasonable request. The Board doesn't want to limit people's brainstorming, but I can see value in culling the list that's sent out for trademark research. _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
