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@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. _______________________________________________ PSF-Community mailing list PSF-Community@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-community

Thank you so much, everyone who has contacted me! We have several new volunteers. In fact, probably a couple more than is entirely optimal for the committee, but I am so delighted to be working with new people. But for now, I'm going to suspend the offer to join, and see how we work with the new members for a few months. Yours, David Mertz... On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 10:52 AM David Mertz <mertz@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.

-- The dead increasingly dominate and strangle both the living and the not-yet born. Vampiric capital and undead corporate persons abuse the lives and control the thoughts of homo faber. Ideas, once born, become abortifacients against new conceptions.