Re: IRC Meeting Action Items - 20100921

[Frederic Muller <fred beijinglug org>]

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Fred

On 09/26/2010 05:22 PM, Emily Chen wrote:
> Here are some agreement between GNOME store and Foundation:
> http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/MerchandisingAgreement
>
> If they BGUG start a GNOME store, they need to sign an agreement with
> GNOME foundation. Examples from here:
> http://live.gnome.org/action/AttachFile/FoundationBoard/MerchandisingAgreement?action=AttachFile
>
> -Emily
>
> 2010/9/25 Pockey Lam <pockey beijinglug org <mailto:pockey beijinglug org>>
>
>
>         On 09/25/2010 12:36 PM, Emily Chen wrote:
>
>                 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?
>
>             Can you introduce a  a "neutral" 3rd party to us ? The "one
>             selling
>             T-shirt (free software) community"?
>
>
>         I don't have any in my address book. It's something we as a
>         community need to look into. What I am saying is that selecting
>         a member of our community to sell t-shirt is a dangerous path,
>         or the community decides to handle the shop themselves. But it
>         should be a carefully thought out decision.
>
>         For the other community I'm talking about, I'd prefer not to be
>         associated with them in any way. They seem more focused on
>         selling their t-shirts that promoting free software or whatever
>         they're supposed to promote. @ Blug we call "them" the T-shirt
>         salesman.... I have yet to see any passion in Free and Open
>         Source from that individual and really think that to be
>         associated or compared with his behavior would reflect very
>         badly on our community. -> which is why it's probably best to
>         select a "neutral seller".
>
>         I think we have time, it's not like we NEED to sell stuff
>         tomorrow and have no other choice.
>
>             We are happy to work with other organization as long as it
>             make things
>             done.
>
>             -Emily
>
>     Since Emily is going to have a discussion with the Beijing GUG, she
>     will update us on the proposition later :)
>     I would also be interested to know what are the existing rules in
>     place related to the profit generated by official GNOME User Group
>     and the sales of the tshirts/other stuff? if the BGUG sells tshirts,
>     do the profit go only to the user group? does the GNOME User Group
>     needs the money or is the group doing it on behalf of GNOME.Asia or
>     The GNOME Foundation?  Should we expect the same behaviour for the
>     whole Asia region?
>     Are these rules already specify in the contract? Can we have a look
>     at the contact?
>
>     There are probably more questions to ask ourselves in order to
>     clarify the matter.
>
>     At the meantime, we can also look if there is any third party(s)
>     that we can trust and can help us to build the GNOME store similar
>     to the concept of zazzle in Asia. Maybe India and China would be
>     great locations to start with as Abharath also mentioned that there
>     is a big market in India as well :)
>
>     Pockey
>
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