[Conferences] Trademark policy for "PyCon" conferences

[Juan Luis Cano]

Hello,

We organized the PyCon in Spain last year and created an organization 
("Python España") to collect all the funds and in a way centralize the 
resources we needed, but it's in our mind that different people help us 
organize the conference in different cities (or do all the work 
themselves). Does this mean that we have to ask for permission every 
year, or every time a different team organizes the conference? Perhaps 
we can hold the "grandchildren" trademark as the Python España 
organization and look after its right use? Anyhow, can you help us 
clarify which are the actions we have to take in the future? We already 
adopted a CoC last year so there should be no problems in that respect.

Best regards

Juan Luis Cano
President of Python España

On 06/02/2014 07:34 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Dear conference organizers,
>
> the PSF board has recently discussed and voted on a new trademark
> policy for the term "PyCon". Our main intent is to protect the
> name from unwanted third party use for the benefit of the Python
> community. We simply don't want to run into another python.co.uk
> trademark situation:
>
> http://pyfound.blogspot.de/2013/02/python-trademark-at-risk-in-europe-we.html
>
> We have not yet put this up on the website, but since the question
> has come up, I'd like to share it with you via email as upfront info:
>
> """
>
> "PyCon" Trademark Policy
> ------------------------
>
> In order to protect the term "PyCon" against unwanted or misleading
> use by third parties, the PSF claims the term “PyCon” as a trademark
> worldwide for conference activities. The PSF is additionally pursuing
> registration of the mark in various jurisdictions.
>
> It is the policy of the Python Software Foundation to allow the use
> of "PyCon" for conferences that focus on Python the programming
> language, have adopted a code of conduct compatible with that of the
> PSF, and allow anyone to attend the conference subject to a
> reasonable conference fee. Use of the trademark is subject to
> approval by the PSF trademarks committee (write to
> psf-trademarks at python.org).
>
> The PSF may update this policy from time to time. Updates will be
> published and announced by the PSF.
>
>
> PyCon Conferences Around the World
> -----------------------------------
>
> PyCon conferences are community-led and community-focused gatherings
> of Python programmers around the world. Want to start a PyCon in your
> own country? Contact us! We want to help.
>
> The following are authorized PyCon community conferences:
>
>      "Kiwi PyCon", "PyCon NZ" in New Zealand
>      "PyCon Asia Pacific", "PyCon APAC" in Asia
>      "PyCon AR", "PyCon Argentina" in Argentina
>      "PyCon AU", "PyCon Australia"  in Australia
>      "PyCon CA", "PyCon Canada" in Canada
>      "PyCon CH", "PyCon China" in China
>      "PyCon DE" in Germany
>      "PyCon ES", "PyCon España", "PyCon Spain" in Spain
>      "PyCon FI", "PyCon Finland" in Finland
>      "PyCon FR", "PyCon France" in France
>      "PyCon IN", "PyCon India" in India
>      "PyCon IR", "PyCon Iran" in Iran
>      "PyCon IE", "PyCon Ireland" in Ireland
>      "PyCon IT", "PyCon Italia" in Italy
>      "PyCon JP", "PyCon Japan" in Japan
>      "PyCon MY", "PyCon Malaysia" in Malaysia
>      "PyCon PH", "PyCon Philippines" in the Philippines
>      "PyCon PL", "PyCon Poland" in Poland
>      "PyCon RU", "PyCon Russia" in Russia
>      "PyCon SG", "PyCon Singapore" in Singapore
>      "PyCon SE", "PyCon Sweden" in Sweden
>      "PyCon TW", "PyCon Taiwan" in Taiwan
>      "PyCon UK" in the United Kingdom
>      "UA PyCon", "PyCon Ukraine", "PyCon UA" in Ukraine
>      “PyCon US” in the United States
>      "PyCon UY", "PyCon Uruguay" in Uruguay
>      "PyCon VE", "PyCon Venezuela" in Venezuela
>      "PyCon ZA", "PyCon South Africa" in South Africa
>
> If we have forgotten a national or regional PyCon conference
> in this list or have used the wrong naming, please write to
> the PSF trademark committee for approval.
>
> It is also possible to use a pycon.org sub-domain as home
> for the conference. Please write to webmaster at pycon.org to
> request a sub-domain.
>
> """
>
> As you can see, we have tried to grandfather all existing
> PyCon conferences that we could find and are aware of into
> the resolution.
>
> If you have questions, please let me know.
>
> Regards,