[uf-discuss] Microformats Community Mark

[Dimitri Glazkov]

Have you guys had a chance to chat with the CC folk about this? I had
a very brief conversation with Mike Linksvayer about CM at NetSquared,
but delicious catered lunch got in the way. I am sure they will be
able to provide some tips/tricks/advice.

:DG<

On 6/22/06, brian suda <brian.suda at gmail.com> wrote:
> Today on IRC[1], we talked briefly about the Microformats Logo and how
> it is setup to be a Community Mark. Tantek pointed to Chris Messina's
> original post about the idea of a community mark[2].
>
> I really do like the idea, it fits nicely with everything that we are
> doing here as a community, but i do have some reservations and
> questions. Hopefully, as a community we can help clarify what a
> "community mark" (cm) really is?
>
> I also know Microformats are very much against "Theoretical" situations,
> so i'll try and ground this in the real world as much as possible!
>
> Back in March, i had a suggestion for a Microformat style T-Shirt[3] I
> really like it, but i'm biased. Now since the logo is a community mark,
> I would need to ask the community's approval to use the logo and put it
> on a shirt and possibly sell it on my own Microformats store.
>
> Questions:
> 1) What constitutes a "community consensus", if I ask the list and 5
> people respond saying, "sure go ahead", is that enough?
> 2) Can it be revoked? If my shirt sells like wild-fire and and the other
> microformats store[4] gets mad, can my usage be revoked?
> 3) what about projects that can not be disclosed? Pingerati.net[5] has a
> big Microformats logo on it, Technorati didn't ask the community (i'm
> sure it would have been OK) but if they had asked, the description of
> usage would have either been vague or they would have to give away the
> surprise of what they were working on.
>
> I've shared apartments with people before and we had similar community
> agreements, you can eat my food, use my stuff, just ask, or just give
> back - and that works really well, until someone says "we you let me use
> it last week..." (we all know how it starts, and we all know how it ends!)
>
> I ask these question not because I want this to fail, but because I want
> it to succeed.
>
> -brian
>
> [1] - http://rbach.priv.at/Microformats-IRC/2006-06-23#T002652
> [2] - http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/01/14/the-case-for-community-marks/
> [3] - http://flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/117364751/
> [4] - http://www.goodstorm.com/stores/factorycity
> [5] - http://pingerati.net/
>
> Tantek Çelik wrote:
> > On 6/22/06 5:13 PM, "Rémi Prévost" <remi at exomel.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> I made a (very simple) wallpaper[1] for promoting microformats. I didn't
> >> make it available on my website yet because I wanted to know if using
> >> the microformats logo is ok because I didn't find the license which it
> >> released under.
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >>
> >> [1]: As seen on <http://www.flickr.com/photos/remiprev/171676336>
> >>
> >
> > Hi Rémi,
> >
> > Nice wallpaper.
> >
> > The current proposal is to make the microformats logo a CommunityMark(cm)
> > just like BarCamp(cm).
> >
> > http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/01/14/the-case-for-community-marks/
> >
> > Thus ask the community if your use is "proper" or not, and see what people
> > say.
> >
> > I for one like your wallpaper, and suggest that you share it under a
> > creative commons license. ;)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tantek
> >
> >
> >
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