Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2005 Mar 9

[Anne Østergaard <anne oestergaard nu>]

On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 16:18 +0200, Toni Willberg wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 06:13 -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
> >    - Merchandizing
> >      Some agreement we need a shop to sell GNOME items.
> >      The question is how to minimize the work needed there is multiple ways,
> >      the best one seems to delegate to a single supplier at this point,
> >      granting a non-exclusive agreement.
> >      The next question is the product line: books are good sellers, for example
> >      a handbook like Mozilla did, it's unclear we can invest money on this.
> >      We clearly should have  t-shirt, sweatshirt to bootstrap the store.
> >      Initial target: get a shop by 2.12 release.
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I'd like to request that a supplier with possibility ship from various
> locations would be considered.
> 
> For us Europeans it's quite expensive to order items from the US due the
> shipping costs and a possible import tax.

I agree. We buy our books send from for example UK or DE (or an other
country ewithin The European Union) in order to avoid this type of
problems.

Regards

Anne

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Anne Østergaard <anne oestergaard nu>