Topic: [ANN][EGC] EverGreenCoin | Environmental Green Causes | Full 7% PoS | Foundation - page 29. (Read 284552 times)

Reading the above I think the issue that Chicago has from GitHub is mainly around how it was done. I.e. being issued a cease and desist via GitHub rather than a friendly private message/email.

Cease and Desist messages via providers are best kept when all else fails. Using them against members of the community is just going to lead to people being needlessly upset and ultimately harms everyone.

Trademarked coin?  Pretty legit if you ask me.  Don't forget about the T-shirt raffle https://evergreencoin.org/product/egcc-t-shirt-raffle/
Have a great day everyone.

Hi abyaby123,

    I am accountable to the community for the commitments I have made to all of you, which included accepting a large part of the responsibility for ensuring a successful rebase of the repository so our projected goals would be completed on time and exceed expectations.

    The complaint regarding the Github Trademark Policy came to me less than 12 hours after I sent the following email message to Steven.

    Prior to the email message from GitHub Staff, I was not asked to do anything differently than I had been doing since my first pull requests to https://github.com/EverGreenCoinDev/EverGreenCoin had been graciously accepted.  I also received no response after sending the above email which could have easily been the most appropriate time to approach me directly regarding any perceived confusion about the registered name on GitHub.

    In other words, the only indication there was a problem came to me directly from GitHub Staff requesting I take action.
    The reason you're reading about it here is because we are all stakeholders in the project and committed to its success.
    Withholding an important status update from the community, about a major project, would have been a material breach of trust.

Best Regards,
-Chicago

Exactly. For me it seems like an internal thingy.
If there should be a trademark violation that should be addressed, it would be http://www.ebay.com/usr/evergreencoin?rt=nc or http://www.batteriesinaflash.com/evergreen-coin-cell-battery-cr1216-lithium-3v-replaces-dl1216-ecr1216. To name a few.

And what was Stevens answer to that things? I can understand that this is a really bad situation that could be prevented from the start. If somebody reported trademark things it could only be Steven, but then I don't understand why you don't just talk to each other before posting it here...

Hi Gizfreak,

    Late last year, community members in the freenode #EverGreenCoin channel discussed immediate and near-term goals for the project.
    One of the topics for discussion included leveraging the continual improvements made by upstream developers who contribute more significant changes to their repositories.

    We evaluated Mammix's boostcoin-core repository and rat4's BlackCoin repository.
    This is because EverGreenCoin is a direct descendant of MaiaCoin which receives updates mostly in lockstep from Mammix's boostcoin-core project.
    Since boostcoin-core received more maintenance than MaiaCoin which had no meaningful commits beyond implementing the boostcoin-core fixes; it was important to first see whether anything offered in the new boostcoin-core code would benefit us now or in the future.

    There were no significant changes in boostcoin-core or MaiaCoin to merit a future based on only MaiaCoin or BoostCoin updates.
    However, MaiaCoin and BoostCoin are both descendants of BlackCoin and our code is nearly a replica of BlackCoin v1.0.6 from April, 21st 2014 with only a few minor changes.

    Since BlackCoin had been more active and had meaningful contributions tested by more users over a much longer period of time; it was important to look at BlackCoin development to improve our own project and address shortcomings.  These efforts were the direct result of discussions in the IRC channel where a timeline for rebasing was set for 1Q17.

    The issue came about after I successfully rebased EverGreenCoin onto the BlackCoin repository so we could draw updates from BlackCoin in the future.

    After the project was completed and the client code was published on GitHub and found to be satisfactory without any observed regressions, it wasn't much longer until I received the message from GitHub Staff.

    In a nutshell, I provided more than 100 hours of volunteer time to do work which benefits the community and the EverGreenCoin network.
    After publishing the work, the GitHub repository and account were reported for a violation of the GitHub Trademark Policy.
    Unless the repository was renamed and all references to the registered name were removed from the code, GitHub Staff suggested they would forcibly disable the repository.

    That's the gist of it.

Best Regards,
-Chicago

@Chicago
I don't get it.
Isn't the trademark EverGreenCoin owned by Steven? So where is all the fuzz about?

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Hello Evergreeners,

    Earlier today, I received a communication from GitHub Staff regarding a report made to them requesting the removal of my development repositories and both an associated GitHub account and GitHub organization.
    So there is no confusion, the Official Development Tree is https://github.com/EverGreenCoinDev/EverGreenCoin

    GitHub Staff described the confusion reported by the complainant in regards to a United States Patent and Trademark Office filing from Sep. 9, 2016 as follows.
        https://tmog.uspto.gov/#/issueDate=2017-02-07&serialNumber=87166201


GitHub Staff then provided the following information as it pertains to the description of the confusion.

GitHub Staff then shared the complainant's requested action.

    I have complied with the request by removing the repository and organization account moments after reading the email messages from GitHub Staff.
    There was no prior complaint made directly to me by the EverGreenCoin Foundation or any other party.

    Had there been a request for any references to evergreencoin or the evergreencoin logo to be removed from my development repository; the matter would have been resolved without necessitating an escalation to GitHub Staff.

    Therefore, I hope there is no longer any potentially unresolved confusion as it pertains to the Official Development Tree: https://github.com/EverGreenCoinDev/EverGreenCoin

    Transparency is one of my core values and I trust the community understands no ill will is harbored here regarding the above matter.

    I look forward to a promising future for both the Evergreeners and the EverGreenCoin network.

Best Regards,
-Chicago
    

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Thank you again for sharing your opinions. Have a great day Uki.

ZEIT is actually much worse than 1 sat. I bet many holders wish it to be worth that much
But leaving ZEIT and other coins from my personal note aside, what I said about EGC is most probably true.
I wish I was wrong.

It's great that the word is getting out there - its feels like a really good timing too with the new version of the wallet, charity staking and upturn in the price. Just catching up after being away on business for a week looking forward to reading the interview this evening!

Thanks! The interview is already getting a lot of exposure on twitter and google plus that I am aware of. It is also being redistributed by many 'copy-cat' blogs already. The best part is, it's a free of cost promotion for EverGreenCoin that looks to be making a sizable impression already.

hehehe ...

all good mate ... its an industry like any other ...

as for the mention - all good ... not necessary - as its all about egc - and there are MANY facets of help / work behind the scenes to make a lot happen ...

you just stay the way you are mate ... its easy to get jaded in this industry ...

very good stuff ...

#crysx

I thought for sure you would like the mention of Austrailia in the interview. Even if it was mentioned in relation to a topic you are less fond of.

Of course, I am honoured to have earned people's trust and fully intend to maintain that.

Thanks for the kind words!

this is superb news ...

and just to mention also mate ...

if you had my occasional aggressiveness - it 'may' help in the shyness department - but i highly doubt you would get as far as you have with egc ... its YOUR nature and honesty that makes the trust factor here so high ... not just your 'reputation' ...

#crysx

I will be the first to admit, I am a horribly shy person. I hope I did EverGreenCoin a service by 'sucking that up' and conducting an interview for SolarEnergyDirectory.com (http://solarenergydirectory.com/blog/interview-with-steven-saxton-evergreencoin/).

The interview has already also been published at http://pennyheaven.com/interview-with-steven-saxton-founder-and-lead-developer-evergreencoin/ and https://medium.com/@BrainGuzzle/interview-with-steven-saxton-founder-and-lead-developer-evergreencoin-acf75511e1d9#.kihvehff6 to my knowledge.

The interviewer, George Penssin, will be sending it to more journalists tomorrow. I hope many new eyes learn of our humble EverGreenCoin project because of it. Please like, share, recommend, and tweet it if you find it interesting and deserving. I have the interview in press release format if anyone in the community knows of another outlet that might publish it. PM me for that.

Thanks in advance!

If only all price levels were as easy to maintain.



 

You mean like betcoin.ag? Nah it's doing much better than that. Thanks for your opinion though. Have a great day.