On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Bernhard Dippold < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi James, Danishka, all > > James Walker schrieb: > > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Danishka Navin<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>>> In my opinion I think that we should really leave it up to the >>>> individual >>>> marketing teams to do this for their area. It would be easier to manage >>>> and >>>> then the items sold could be better customized to their market. >>>> >>>> >>> you meant local communities will produce Tshirts and send their funds >>> back >>> to TDF ? >>> >>> I don't think it as a good solution, but it is the best solution if we >>> are >>> not working for fund raising with Tshirts. >>> >> > I don't think that it is necessary that all stores have to be led by TDF > directly. > > In my eyes local stores make sense by avoiding customs, reducing transport > fees and delivery times. > > Probably we (the community led by the Steering Committee) will have to > define which way to go: > > a) one centralized store > > b) one central organization with different local stores > > c) officially approved local stores (one for each region) > > d) officially approved local stores (no restriction by region) > like the distributor network on OOo > > e) stores without direct connection to the community / TDF > > > >>> >> With us having marketing broken down into regions, or languages, I think >> it >> would be easier for each language group or marketing area to do there own >> thing. Just like there are places in the US that make the items and >> handle >> shipping and everything else for you, I am sure there is in other >> countries >> as well. It would be really confusing I think to attempt a global store. >> >> I also am not sure what selling stuff under TDF would do for the >> non-profit >> aspect of the foundation. >> >> What I see is the US/CAN marketing teams setting up a place and then >> directing people to that site when they are out promoting LibreOffice. >> Then >> all the money that is generated from their store could go towards more >> Marketing in the area. I think seperating the funds like that would work >> just fine. >> >> I am going to end here for now, as I feel like I am rambling. >> > > Not at all - this is a topic we should discuss and decide, at it is a good > opportunity to raise money. > > What I want to avoid is companies paying money to become the official LibO > store - avoiding concurrent stores until the next one pays more money. > > Even if this might bring us the most money, it might not be the best > situation for our users / customers and doesn't fit to my understanding of > free and open. > > My preference is option d) > > Stores have to ask permission to be mentioned on our website. > > We provide officially approved designs for them to sell (or we accept their > design proposals - under free license - as part of our official visual > design) > > They can add a button/banner "Officially approved LibreOffice store". > > They donate a certain percentage to TDF. > > Best regards > > Bernhard > >> >> > > Personally, I am looking into setting up something for the US/Can Marketing teams, where most of the money raised will go back into marketing efforts in the US/Can. I am sure we will have a little bit of overhead to maybe have someone take care of all the paperwork, and make sure all the orders make it to the person they are supposed to. I am still looking into the idea of the T-shirts that we discussed before, if someone would like to purpose artwork for say the front pocket of the T-shirt, and maybe a design for the back that would help. We could then vote on it, then I will make a list of all those interested in ordering and then see how much per T-shirt I can get them made. We have some very good quality T-shirts made for work every year. These are used in a shop enviroment and they last most of the guys a couple of years when we order 5 or so a piece. James Walker -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
