I would suggest that we come up with one or two approved designs and work something out with a firm that can produce them (I know nothing about this). Then user groups, event organizers, etc, can just contact that firm and request # of shirts. Then we ensure consistent quality to keep up the good name that is GNOME :)
My $0.02 On 7/17/07, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Patrick, > > Patrick Wagstrom wrote: > > 3. We've talked about getting and selling T-Shirts before, and I'm > > willing to put up some of my own money to seed this. I imagine selling > > the shirts for slightly over cost to help me recover some (not all) of > > the funds, and then use the rest to keep the venture going. However, > > the GNOME foot is trademarked, and thus, I don't believe that I can > > legally print up T-Shirts for GNOME and sell them. Can someone who > > knows this messy issue help me out here? The only link I can find on > > the website is for the old design foot too. > > This is what gnome-fr did a couple of years back, to good effect. There > are trademark issues, as you point out, but user group usage of the > trademark can be covered by a user group trademark agreement which can > be signed online, and which allows this type of usage. > > As Quim said, this is the type of activity which we should be > encouraging, not discouraging. When it gets to a point where we have > dozens of t-shirt designs and t-shirts of varying quality, it might be > time to put the foot down, centralise production of a few prints and > move to distribution of t-shirts to user groups on a cost basis, but > some work is needed to get to that stage. > > Cheers, > Dave. > > -- > Dave Neary > GNOME Foundation member > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > -- Ken VanDine http://ken.vandine.org -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
