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:

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> 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
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