[ELECTRON] Barcamp Glasgow/in principle discussion

[Paola Di Maio]

Thanks Si

Thanks for reply

If nobody else picks up on this I will pursue accordingly

Are you aware of other instances where Barcamp name is tagged onto non
barcamp events?
(i wonder if it happens regularly)

 I think it would be good practice to avoid such confusion, should nobody
else pick up on this, I will

Difficult however to know who to contact, need to dig up from companies
house who are the directors of the
company are etc

boh


PDM

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Simon Yuill <simon at lipparosa.org> wrote:

> Hi Paola,
>
> It just looks like a regular corporate event with the barcamp name tagged
> onto to it. I notice it says "BarCamp 2010" rather than barcamp itself so
> is probably some kind of psuedo-branding they are using.
>
> I would suggest you just contact them yourself first of all and see what
> they say.
>
> best wishes
> Si
>
>
>
> > Dear all
> >
> > I heard with interest about  the forthcoming Barcamp Glasgow (I think I
> > took
> > part briefly in Barcamp Edinburgh at Informatics one year go or so)
> > , but have not seen the entry in the barcamp.org website, nor any
> > discussion
> > about the organisation
> >
> > Details here
> >
> http://www.scottish-enterprise.com/interactivescotland/is-events/is-events-details.aspx?itemId={39CC350E-1618-4E4D-ADF1-E1DA6485A463}
> >
> > I  probably wont be able to attend personally on that day
> >
> > While I do not have a problem that Scottish Enteprises is planning to
> > bring
> > in some firms to talk, and helping to promote the barcamp culture
> > I am worried that this is not at all Barcamp, and nor it is a ' barcamp
> > style' event, in the sense that there is no mechanism for
> > open participation (not an apparent one),  It doesnt feel right to me.
> >
> > There is now wiki where people can enter their talks, yadadiyada
> > you know the score
> >
> > I would be glad if someone (preferably a lawyer)  could talk to the
> > organisers and inform them politely  of what a Barcamp is, and that
> > although
> > Barcamp is not officially trademarke afaik), it would not be good
> > practice
> > to use a very well known 'brand name'  to organise somethiing radically
> > different in its core principle
> >
> > I ll be happy to have an offlist (or onlis?t) discussion with anyone
> > willing
> > to look into it further, and suggest the appropriate course of action
> >
> >
> >
> > PDM
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