Marketing team:
In the past month, the GNOME Foundation has received two requests from people interested in marketing GNOME branded merchandise. So, I am interested to hear the GNOME Marketing community's perspective about the appropriate way to respond to such requests. Is the GNOME community even considering such requests? If so, should people with an interest make their request on the marketing-list for consideration, or what process should be followed? Looking at the available resources on this topic, it does not seem that we have any sort of policy for how to respond to such requests: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/Merchandising http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/MerchandisingAgreement http://live.gnome.org/Trademark In fact, the above Wiki pages seem very out of date and do not reflect much information about current merchandising work we do, such as with Hackerthreads. On the Trademark Wiki, I can see that there are some draft, but not "official" trademark agreement template documents. Perhaps this is a good starting point? In general, the GNOME board of directors frequently gets various requests about whether it is appropriate to use the GNOME logo in various situations. If the above website could be further fleshed out to explain how to handle other common use cases, then this would be really helpful. For example: - For personal use (a t-shirt an individual is making for themselves) - For an event (logos on event merchandise) If such a FAQ could be put together, then the GNOME Foundation would be able to easily point people to the process if they want to use the logo for various purposes, including selling GNOME-branded merchandise. Our current guidelines do not provide much information to make it easy for people to understand Thoughts? Brian -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
