<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Does anyone know if Yet Another Society / YAPC organizers have<br>permission to use the camel in association with YAPC conferences, or
<br>do we need to ask for permission each year?</blockquote><div><br>The answer is explicitly "no." We do not have permission, nor will permission ever be given. Welcome to the wonderful world of trademark law. I had this discussion with O'Reilly's IP lawyer a few years ago.
<br><br>Which isn't to say that a camel can't be used at all. You just can't use the O'Reilly Perl Camel. (You know the one I mean.) You can make your own camel and use it. Here is the one we came up with for Toronto's YAPC a few years ago:
<br><br><a href="http://wiki.yapctoronto.org/theme/yapc_toronto/images/camoose.gif">http://wiki.yapctoronto.org/theme/yapc_toronto/images/camoose.gif</a><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On this subject, does anyone have any Texas/Houston specific ideas<br>that might be fun to incorporate into this year's logo/t-shirt?</blockquote><div><br>Perhaps you could make a "Carmadillo"?<br>
<br>But, on another point -- don't forget, The Camel is an O'Reilly Perl thing. The Perl Foundation uses an Onion logo. Maybe Onion adaptations is what should be aimed for.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Richard<br><br></div></div>