Following a number of successful trademark applications, "TM" was added to the basic Samvera logo. The Samvera logo is a registered trade mark in the USA and is the subject of trademark applications in Canada, the UK and the EU.
The seven founding members of the Hydra Project photographed during the period of their first meeting at the University of Virginia in September 2008. Left to right and Ross Wayland (UVA), Thornton (Thorny) Staples (Fedora), Tom Cramer (Stanford), Lynn McRae (Stanford), Tim Sigmon (UVA), Chris Awre (Hull), and Richard Green (Hull).