Can we get a magnetic car gnome foot?  I would totally pay for one of those
and a "best of sri" rupert quotes t-shirt.  Although you probably dont' want
to put a GNOME foot logo wtih that. :)

sri

ps I was being a little facetious, but in many case community ware involving
community members might sell just as well as GNOME brnaded stuff.

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Paul Cutler <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi, a few of us were chatting in #marketing in IRC today, and one
> topic that came up, that I believe has come up before, is the creation
> of a GNOME Store to sell merchandise, such as t-shirts.
>
> Stormy has previously talked to Zazzle, who runs the Mozilla store
> (http://store.mozilla.org/), and it sounds like it's very easy to get
> up and running with them.
>
> I'd like to propose we form a small team.  Longer term, they'd be
> responsible for reviewing new artwork from the community, helping
> decide which logos should be on different kinds of merchandise,
> helping manage sales or clearance items, and maybe even develop some
> limited time special merchandise for sale, in addition to managing the
> website.
>
> Short term, we need the team to implement the store.  Action items I
> can think of off the top of my head:
>
> * Get a GNOME mailing list setup (gnome-store?)
> * Get some artwork - In addition to our foot logo, is there previously
> created GNOME artwork or logos that we can use?
> * Get the artwork to Zazzle and decide what kind of merchandise we
> want to launch with
> * Create the GNOME store web pages in the gnomeweb-wml
>
> (What else am I missing?)
>
> Going forward if we can form a steering committee to help manage and
> launch this, it might provide some small income to help the
> Foundation.  If we can get some volunteers, especially from the art
> team and web team, and anyone else, we might be able to get something
> going.
>
> I'm more than happy to lend a hand if there is interest in getting
> something like this going.
>
> Paul
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