Re: Meeting Minutes Published - August 19, 2010

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 10:48 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Brian Cameron wrote:
> >     * GNOME Trademarks
> >           o TM can claim without formal registration
> >           o Do we want a (R) registered trademark on the correct GNOME
> >             foot / logo?
> >           o GNOME foot (old) has a registered trademark
> >           o French website
> >                 + ACTION: Bastien to send the French website a
> >                   follow-up email about GNOME Trademarks
> 
> Luis worked on "cleaning up" GNOME's trademark story around 2006-07 - it
> would be worthwhile asking him the current situation, since he is the
> one who took charge of the issue back then. As far as I know, we
> registered the GNOME foot + wordmark in the US through Wilson Sonsini.
> 
> >     * Bastien - To contact some international banks for the possibility
> >       of a US-based dual-currency account (probably will not work, as
> >       Stormy already did research.
> 
> Just a data point: Louis Desjardins mentioned to me recently that he has
> opened a CAD/USD/EUR account in Canada. I *guess* that international
> bank transfer charges will still be expensive.

Except that the US banks seem to like providing below standard services.
I completely failed to find a bank that would offer the type of services
we're looking for, at a reasonable cost to us.