On 5/1/12 5:32 PM, Donald Harbison wrote:
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Jean Weber<[email protected]> wrote:
Yes, in fact "Friends of" made the offer to AOO long ago.
My idea is to have both the opportunity for anyone to purchase TShirts
etc, and a fund to supply same for use at booths. Books, too, of course.
Mainly what is needed is permission to use the AOO logo (and perhaps
variations such as "I [heart] [AOO logo]) and someone to do the work... Set
up a store, create products, etc.
We can move in this direction from within this PMC, with consultation from
@trademarks. I'll be happy to help with that. Can you point me to the
original offer thread you're referring to?
I looked for an online job to offer some OOo stuff like that on demand.
I have to figure it our again. The idea is to provide the designs and
define which kind of products should be sold (t-shirts, sweatshirts,
mugs, bags, etc.)
The hoster/maintainer of the job will get XY% from the money and the
rest can be transferred to Apache. That should be a model where we don't
have to produce something on hold but can do it on demand. Maybe a
little bit more expensive but we would have less effort.
But it is always good to have some material in place for conferences etc.
I have produced t-shirts several times for the FOSDEM when I have
organized the OOo presence there... I hope I can do it next year for AOO
Juergen
Thank you.
Jean
On 01/05/2012, at 11:39, Donald Harbison<[email protected]> wrote:
Jean,
Are there any funds available from Friends of OpenDocument similar to
those
being allocated to LibreOffice? If so, we can mobilize around something
like what you're proposing. The fund would have to be held outside of the
project, but could be allocated for supporting this type of concept.
What do you think?
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Jean Weber<[email protected]> wrote:
Do we have plans for AOO promotional t-shirts and other swag? Would
this need to go through an Apache store or can AOO do it?
I'm not looking at this as a way to raise money (which would need to
go to Apache, not AOO, anyway), but rather for promotion. People at
trade shows, developers' conferences, etc can wear tshirts; buttons
and other low-cost items could be given away at booths; tshirts could
be given away as prizes; people can have mugs and mousepads at work...
well, you know the drill. Could be sold on eg CafePress at cost.
--Jean
