Hi all, In trying to wrap my head around DefCore, I read the DefCore committe's mission as documented on the committee's wiki page[0]. The mission is to "define 'OpenStack Core' as chartered by the by-laws and guided by Governance/CoreDefinition.' While the bylaws don't have any reference to "OpenStack Core" they do define a term called "Core OpenStack Project"[1]. Is this what the DefCore Comittee is refering to when talking about "OpenStack Core?" If so, the bylaws already clearly state the process to change what software modules make up the "Core OpenStack Project." The Technical Committee(TC) proposes a change to what is in the "Core OpenStack Project" and the Board of Directors has the sole authrity to approve or reject the TC's recommendation [2]. This mismatch between DefCore's mission and the bylaws has already been identified by the DefCore committee itself [3]. So if the current mission statement doesn't align with the bylaws then what is the DefCore committe's current mission statement? The 'Core Definition' document[5] mentions DefCore will help "determine how commercial implementations of OpenStack can be granted use of the trademark," and the committee "may suggest changes to the by-laws to clarify the definition of core." So presumably DefCore is not about defining "Core OpenStack Project," but rather about revising the trademark policy as defined in Appendix 8 of the bylaws [6]. This interpretation alligns with the special clause on ammendments in the bylaws "the Board of Directors may by majority vote, amend the Trademark Policy prior to January 31, 2013 to establish testing and certification requirements for the use of the trademarks owned by the Foundation in connection with the use of the Core OpenStack Project."[7] What is the progress on drafting a revision to the trademark policy? Is there a preliminary draft on the proposed change? Seeing this would help me wrap my better understand DefCore. best, Joe Gordon [0] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/DefCoreCommittee [1] http://www.openstack.org/legal/bylaws-of-the-openstack-foundation/ Sections 4.1.b [2] http://www.openstack.org/legal/bylaws-of-the-openstack-foundation/ Sections 4.13.b [3] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/DefCoreBylawsIPE [5] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/CoreDefinition [6] http://www.openstack.org/brand/openstack-trademark-policy/ [7] http://www.openstack.org/legal/bylaws-of-the-openstack-foundation/ Sections 9.2.d -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/attachments/20140622/14aeb2b2/attachment.html>