[HOT] A company page for HOT on Linkedin, is it normal ?

Paul Norman penorman at mac.com
Mon Feb 9 01:08:28 UTC 2015


On 2/8/2015 3:32 PM, Augustin Doury wrote:
> By creating this page, the Communication Working Group must use a 
> different name of « Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team ». By using this 
> inappropriate designation, the HOT US Inc organization keeps up the 
> monopolization of public/private positions around the HOT objectives, 
> speaking as if you were representing the thousands of volunteers 
> working with praiseworthy motivations, it's how people can feel about 
> this, it's how I feel.
As a formal matter, it's probably also a problem for a "*company*" page 
to be Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team, when OpenStreetMap is a 
trademark. I wouldn't see this as an issue for a "Group" page.
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