http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/GnomeStore updated, adding tasks and initial list of products for sale. On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 10:14 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
The range of projects should be very small, at least to begin.
What about * T-shirts * Polo shirts * Stickers * Mugs * Pins
One thing we've also discussed on the board is how to handle international customers - the easiest thing for the users who wants to buy a t-shirt is to select his region at the home page, and be taken to a localised page where he gets the stuff from a producer/redistributor in his country/region.
By now we will have only one shop based in Spain. Killermundi is trying to find the best prices for European destinations. People in other continents will have expensive mail costs... but at least they will have an opportunity to buy. I would leave for the next release the addition of new resellers in other countries and all the related procedures.
agree on a web-site look & feel
In the case of Killermundi this is not a problem. They need to set up the ecommerce platform and they will appreciate if we have already a layout.
co-ordinating product quality from several different people (assuming they're not produced centrally somewhere)
I would start assuming that the GNOME products are produced centrally, and that samples are sent to us for quality check before going to the shop.
It might be an idea to look for suppliers who can distribute goods in the US and Europe, and who decide where deliveries are sent from based on your address.
Could the Hackerthreads be a candidate for US supplier?
KDE have finally gone this route: http://www.kde.org/stuff/merchandise.php - it would be good to know how their store is doing.
Well, this is a decent patch. A page designed by KDE with links pointing to a unique reseller with no KDE look&feel (and German locale at least in my browser) i.e. http://www.linux-discount.de/Store/me30/ME30-100-INT/ We can do this in a worst case scenario, although at least with Killermundi we will have something more integrated. -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://pinguino.tv
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