Excellent suggestions. I know this subject came up in the Marketing BoF at GUADEC, but I can't recall where we left things... Paul...?
I'm willing to help out with this one, and I think we _should_ try to treat such requests positively (if they're reasonable) and _quickly_. This could be a source of some income for the Foundation if it's handled reasonably, as well as a good potential marketing tool... On 12/16/09 4:44 AM, "Brian Cameron" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 In fact, the above Wiki pages seem very out of date and do not reflect 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
