Re: GNOME Local user groups

["Felipe Barros S." <felipe linuxlab cl>]

Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Felipe Barros S. wrote:
>> 	We[1] are an official GNOME Group[2], with almost five GNOME Foundation
>> members, we promote, teach and evangelize in our country and I have some
>> questions to do:
> 
> I'm curious what "almost 5 foundation members" means :)
> 
some are in process of being it

>> 1. We can use all the marketing stuff[3] like a official logos, posters,
>> and other stuffs in our meetings or RFDG[4]?
> 
> Yes. have you signed the click-through GNOME user group trademark usage
> agreement? http://foundation.gnome.org/licensing/index.html
> 
>> 2. Now in November we have a meeting called "Día de GNOME"[5] as part of
>> the "VII Encuentro Nacional de Linux" and we want to invite to some
>> GNOME Hacker to talk with us. The GNOME Foundation could help us in some
>> way?
> 
> This is trickier - the GNOME Foundation is everyone on this list.
> 
> Whether the board could help financially, or with contacts, is a
> separate question - please contact board-list with a list of things you
> hope we can help with.
> 
> If what you're looking for is some community members to help organise
> the conference, invite people, or other things like that, then this list
> is probably the best place to ask. What kind of help do you need?
> 

We are making contacts with some GNOME Hackers to invite it to Chile and
participate in our meeting.

>> 3. To resolve in part the expenses of the meetings that we make. We can
>> sell some stuffs like a stickers, mugs, pencils or whatever, using GNOME
>> logos and fonts?
> 
> There are 3 answers to this, none is particularly satisfactory (IANAL,
> this is my personal take, given the research I have had to do into the
> issue, etc.):
> 
> 1. In general, no. The foundation has a couple of agreements with
> vendors selling GNOME merchandise (and more on the way). Selling GNOME
> merchandise for-profit (even as a fundraiser) is explicitly forbidden in
> the user group agreement I referred to earlier.
> 
> 2. As a user group, this could be considered proper use of the
> trademarks by members of the community (and thus agents of the
> foundation). This is the way I see things, but the courts might not
> agree, if we ever had a trademark case. A court case is highly unlikely,
> though.
> 
> 3. You're in Chile, and the GNOME Foundation has no claim to
> jurisdiction there, so in some sense, you can do whatever you want and
> there's nothing we can do about it.
> 

No, my (our) intention isn't violate the user group agreement in any way.

> Cheers,
> Dave.
> 

-- 
Felipe

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