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 > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list >
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