On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:10 AM, David Nalley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Michael Dinon <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > First off appologies in advance if question has been covered before and > this > > isn't the right list, has there ever been any thought to have a Fedora > store > > where proceeds from T-Shirt, laptop bag, stickers, and coffee mugs could > > benefit the Fedora project? Basically something like the store for the > > GNOME project. I am sure there must be a good reason why this doesn't > > already exist for the Fedora project, but I haven't found it as of yet. > Oh > > and yes I know of the Red Hat mini Fedora store. > > > > -- > > Mike > > > > -- > > marketing mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > > > > So we've had numerous opportunities and even sub-projects attempting > to do so but it boils down to a few issues. > > The biggest is, we have no way do handle inbound money. Fedora is > legally a non-entity. So RHT is the de facto entity when Fedora comes > up, and the landscape for dealing with sales and corporate taxes is so > laden with landmines that every time we've discussed taking money it > appears impossible even from outside of RHT, I can only imagine there > are RHT-Finance and RHT-Legal types that automatically begin consuming > antacid when it's brought up. :) > > The second is, for expansive web stores like Mozilla and Ubuntu have > it requires a large commitment upfront, and management fees. This is > effectively 25% of Fedora's annual disretionary budget. While it's > likely that we'd recoup some if not all of that money, it's a big > chunk of change, and one does have to question if the return on > investment would be worthwhile. > > Fedora-fr maintains a spreadshirt site in France, but it's largely > shirts and clothing. Fedora's regional ambassadors do produce large > amounts of swag including, bathrobes, shirts, tattoos, buttons, > stickers, case badges, etc. These are freely given out at events that > fedora appears at. > > --David >
Ok thank you for the response. I wasn't envisioning a large store like Mozilla but something more along the lines of GNOME's Zazzle store. It is a bit of a shame as I would love to buy Fedora gear that I knew was benefiting the project rather than some person who randomly put up a Fedora shirt on Cafepress. Since RHT already has a small offering of Fedora gear has there been any thought about enhancing that offering with new items/designs, ideally taking input from the Fedora Project but handling the finance/legal aspect of it? -- Mike
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