Re: merchandising GNOME

["Ken VanDine" <ken vandine org>]

I would suggest that we come up with one or two approved designs and
work something out with a firm that can produce them (I know nothing
about this).  Then user groups, event organizers, etc, can just
contact that firm and request # of shirts.  Then we ensure consistent
quality to keep up the good name that is GNOME :)

My $0.02

On 7/17/07, Dave Neary <bolsh gnome org> wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
> Patrick Wagstrom wrote:
> > 3. We've talked about getting and selling T-Shirts before, and I'm
> > willing to put up some of my own money to seed this.  I imagine selling
> > the shirts for slightly over cost to help me recover some (not all) of
> > the funds, and then use the rest to keep the venture going.  However,
> > the GNOME foot is trademarked, and thus, I don't believe that I can
> > legally print up T-Shirts for GNOME and sell them.  Can someone who
> > knows this messy issue help me out here?  The only link I can find on
> > the website is for the old design foot too.
>
> This is what gnome-fr did a couple of years back, to good effect. There
> are trademark issues, as you point out, but user group usage of the
> trademark can be covered by a user group trademark agreement which can
> be signed online, and which allows this type of usage.
>
> As Quim said, this is the type of activity which we should be
> encouraging, not discouraging. When it gets to a point where we have
> dozens of t-shirt designs and t-shirts of varying quality, it might be
> time to put the foot down, centralise production of a few prints and
> move to distribution of t-shirts to user groups on a cost basis, but
> some work is needed to get to that stage.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
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