Re: IRC Meeting Action Items - 20100921

[Emily Chen <emilychen522 gmail com>]

sorry, I just realized it is a private page. 

Let's discuss with this topic in our IRC meeting. 

-Emily

2010/9/26 Frederic Muller <fred beijinglug org>

I'm getting "You are not allowed to view this page."

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="">

-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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