Re: IRC Meeting Action Items - 20100921

[Frederic Muller <fred beijinglug org>]

On 09/25/2010 11:46 AM, Emily Chen wrote:
> 2010/9/24 Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org <mailto:stormy gnome org>>
>
>
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>     On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Pockey Lam <pockey beijinglug org
>     <mailto:pockey beijinglug org>> wrote:
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>         I found this GNOME store http://www.zazzle.com/gnome
>         actually we can buy all kinds of GNOME clothes, even for babies ;)
>         they have gnome mugs too.
>         For the price plus shipping maybe it's a bit high for Asians.
>         how about we find a company similar to zazzle that can help us
>         to do the Asian market?
>         it would be nice to know how it works for gnome and zazzle?
>         what's the co-operation like.
>         then we can start to source in India and China ;)
>
>
>     GNOME has a Zazzle account. We upload graphics, say what items they
>     go with (tshirts, mugs, etc) and say how much you want to make on
>     top of the regular price. We also did some design work for the home
>     page.
>
>     This is a Zazzle service available to anyone. The only exception we
>     got from Zazzle was a 5 letter store name. (Minimum is 6.) There are
>     other services (I only know of US centric ones) so hopefully there's
>     something similar in Asia.
>
>
> We are planning to run a GNOME store in China.  We thinking about Taobao
> and work with 163.com <http://163.com>.
>
> As I mentioned before, Born, who is the core member of BGUG, who is
> running a online shop in Taobao. He can also manage the GNOME store in
> Taobao, he need to sign a agreement with GNOME Foundation, some
> percentage profit will donate to Foundation or for the Beijing GNOME
> Users Group
>
> The Beijing GNOME Users Group will have a meeting to discuss about the
> plan of GNOME store.
>
> -Emily
Isn't there a conflict of interest? Shouldn't we deal with a "neutral" 
3rd party making any issue in our dealings a lot easier to settle?

We already have "one selling T-shirt (free software) community" in 
Beijing, do you want to be the 2nd one?

Fred