[OOTB-hive] Some more ideas

[Boriss Mejias]

Hi Richard,

We really appreciate your participation here, so please comment as much as
you want. It's important for us to know the point of view of Alfresco so
that we can collaborate as fruitful as possible between community and
community.

Just to clarify, it's not at all our goal (as far as I see it) to fork
Alfresco or fragment the community, but it is definitely our goal to
guarantee a free and open source production-ready solution for content
management,
and that is now Alfresco Community Edition. A fork will hardly depend on
the position of the company towards Community Edition.

cheers
Boriss


On 13 June 2014 21:38, Richard Esplin <richard.esplin at alfresco.com> wrote:

> I am lurking, but I will keep my participation to a minimum. My goal is to
> remove roadblocks and keep the company advised, but to not interfere. Other
> Alfresco employees can participate more actively without it being confused
> with our official company strategy. As we figure out our official company
> strategy,
> I might be able to participate more in the future.
>
> I understand the desire to have the domain and brand be related to
> Alfresco,
> but I strongly recommend against it. You can only use Alfresco trademarks
> with
> Alfresco's explicit permission. Jan's blog has been ignored because we love
> him (and the legal team has other things to worry about). But we have
> previously requested projects with similar names to re-brand.
>
> Alfresco allows the public to reference Alfresco Community Edition, so you
> can
> make clear that your efforts are part of the Alfresco community and based
> around Alfresco Community Edition. But I wouldn't include anything derived
> from the term "alfresco" in something hard to change such as a URL.
>
> For the record, I love the name "Order of the Bee". Boris pointed out to me
> that it has a nice relationship to the Alfresco flower that could make for
> a
> nice logo. Though I would also caution not to use the Alfresco flower apart
> from a reference to the official distribution of Alfresco Community
> Edition.
>
> A good example of how to do this is CentOS and other RHEL clones. They
> remove
> all the trademarks, but they do not fragment the community and they do not
> fork the product. I think that is in the best interests of everyone.
> Wildfly vs
> JBoss is perhaps a better example since it is a product rather than a
> distribution, though it does have official monetary support from Red Hat.
>
> Before I go back on mute, I want to thank everyone for your enthusiasm. It
> is
> fun to be part of such a tight-knit community.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Richard
>
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> On Friday, June 13, 2014 14:06:42 Jan Pfitzner wrote:
> > 1. would recommend to start with trello first until everything is setup.
> > 2. my board is still more a prototype but I'm going to push it to github
> > asap...but that may take a while
> > 3. I'm refering alfrescians.org or alfrescians.com (with a "s")  that
> won't
> > have any relations to my own alfrescian.com site.
> > I could imagine that such a similar domain could lead to confusions, but
> > from my side it's all fine.
> > I would recommend that the name should be related to "alfresco" somehow
> - "
> > orderofthebee.org" could be about every software...
> > We should also reuse the "brand label" if we'd like to use a common
> github
> > repo....
> <snip>
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