The idea would be to have a store where we could add any merchandise we want. A GNOME store instead of a store that happens to sell GNOME stuff.
Stormy On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Luis Villa <[email protected]> wrote: > www.hackerthreads.com/go.asp?Cc=GNOME > > ? > > 2009/4/30 Sriram Ramkrishna <[email protected]>: > > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list >
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