Re: I helped improve Gnome and all I got...

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le lundi 21 janvier 2008, à 20:41 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit :
> On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 06:47 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
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> > Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
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> > | We've been doing this already.  That is, local groups have been doing
> > | this already.  And board has been paying on a case by case basis.  See
> > | recent GNOME-FR requests for example.
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> > Err no no. What I meant was that instead of shipping stuff from US
> > (unless it is for an US based "recognition"), how about empowering the
> > local groups to do the swag according to the design and then reimbursing
> > that ? Every 10 USD saved [in shipping] can turn out to be useful. This
> > would also bring the silent (and invisible to community locally ?)
> > contributors to the forefront and get both the local groups and them
> > interacting.
> 
> Sounds useful.  Lets for example start this with one France and India
> and see how it works.

Well. Printing 10 good quality t-shirts in France will be expensive, so
I'm not sure it will cost less in the end than printing 500 t-shirts in
the US and shipping them... Ok, could be a bit less, but not that much.

Also, I fail to understand the "US based recognition" argument. It's not
a t-shirt coming from the US, but a t-shirt coming from GNOME. Or the
GNOME Foundation. And GNOME and the GNOME Foundation are not US things,
but worldwide things.

Don't get me wrong: I love and support the idea, and I'm sure GNOME-FR
would participate if that's the way things will be done. (GNOME-FR gave
free t-shirts for Foundation members last year at FOSDEM, so that's
definitely something we'd love to see)

Vincent

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