[PSF-Community] Invitation to PSF Trademarks Working Group

[Rhys Yorke]

Count me in. I’d be happy to move from the job-board team to help this out for a change. I feel the job board team has things pretty much under control.

Let me know what the next step is.

-Rhys

> On Aug 21, 2020, at 10:52 AM, David Mertz <mertz at gnosis.cx> wrote:
> 
> Hi Community,
> 
> Through the inevitable attribution process of volunteer groups, our very important Trademarks Working Group has much less participation than we would like to have.
> 
> So this is an invitation for community members to help out by joining the committee.  Basically, your responsibilities involve reading the Trademark Usage Policy, maybe skimming the old archive to get a sense of our concerns and standards, and responding to maybe 6-7 emails a month to help judge whether we can authorize a given trademark usage.
> 
> Let me know to volunteer.  We'd like a few people who can reasonably commit to keep an eye on it for a reasonably long continuous period of time (say the next year).  But it's a low-work ongoing commitment, and is really central to the PSF's mission.
> 
> Yours, David Mertz
> Co-chair Python Software Foundation Trademarks Committee
> 
> -- 
> Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food 
> from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the 
> uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting 
> advocates of freedom in prisons.  Intellectual property is
> to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.
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