Hi Scott, On Thursday, 15 February 2018 05:15:12 CET Scott Harvey wrote: > I sent a similar message to the Community Working Group a few days ago, but > I think that might have been a little too high-level.
Not so much high-level as probably the wrong bunch. The CWG is our group of tough community standards enforcers and kindly grandma's. Their remit is not one for the store. The kde-promo working group might have been a better bunch. But the community is the *best* place to suggest this, so you've come to the right place. <snip> > create and update a Cafe Press store. I've done several, for groups of > people taking a cruise together, for my own meager design work, etc. I'm > pretty familiar with how the site works. > > As it stands now, the KDE store is a little sparse. We need to have the > blue K-Gear and Plasma icon available on everything from mousepads to > t-shirts to stickers for our laptops. I'm willing to put in the time to get > those products set up on Cafe Press. Plus, whatever markup is charged can > go back to the KDE mothership as a simple form of fundraising. Just last week I sent a message to this list about revitalizing KDE's stickers. Or maybe I thought about sending it, and didn't :S Getting merchandise right covers a few kinds of products: - stickers (lightweight, easy to move around, everyone wants them) - t-shirts and hoodies (bulky and annoying, but popular) - gadgets and gewgaws CafePress can do all of those, and slapping the KDE logo on everything is quite straightforward. Medium-term, we should do better than that. We have some t-shirt designs kicking around, like the Akademy T-shirts we do each year, and the KDE India shirt is a perennial popular item. So working towards more designs, or more item-suitable designs, is something that can be done. The Visual Design Group (VDG) is our group of tough pixel-wrangling designers and kindly grandma's. That's typically where we would turn to develop some visuals for products. A decent CafePress store could satisfy the (latent) desire for merchandise. Somewhat independently we have the whole merchandise-for-events problem. Getting stickers and t-shirts to events is always a logistical problem, so much so that it is generally worth finding a local supplier. CafePress has decent global logistics, though, so it might -- just might -- make a difference if we, say, need 240 t-shirts in Vienna in August. > What do you think? Is this a worthwhile goal? I don't work, so I've got the > time. Heck, I'd probably buy a coffee mug for myself. Well, *I* think it's a worthwhile goal. Heck, just a decent clear-hard-plastic KDE coffee mug could be a nice thing to have (as an environmental statement?) at an event. We had them at some Akademy (Mechelen?), years ago, lasted for years. [ade]
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