Re: Disruptive Question | Merchandising

[Nelson Marques <07721 ipam pt>]

 Hi Paul,

 I posted it just as curiosity. I'm going to submit during the next days
a small document which pretends to be a Marketing Plan for the Gnome
Brand. It ain't nothing that special, but with the help of this list, we
should develop it and submit it for approval to the Gnome Foundation so
that we get a couple of things on the road.

 Establishing the "personality" of the brand is essential for all
merchandise, in fact, for all projects GNOME related. I hope people
don't take this as an "attack from bureaucrats", but getting this lines
thought over now is nice and will help in future projects and to
position our brand correctly.

 I've got a couple of things to propose to this list, need just some
time to make a paper presentation for them, so we can develop some
concepts.

 About suggestions on merchandising platforms, I would really love to
stay out of it. It was more a curiosity than anything else.

 I'll be keeping people updated on what I'm doing, then submit the info
to the list, discuss, work, re-work if needed, submit to whoever calls
the shots and implement.

 Thanks,
 Nelson



On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 15:16 -0600, Paul Cutler wrote:
> Nelson,
> 
> On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 20:44 +0000, Nelson Marques wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >  I was checking a lot of stuff going on, and I do have a simple question:
> > 
> >  GNOME was born in an environment that has always been associated to a
> > fictitious war against proprietary systems, yet, without being too much fanatic
> > about this issues there is Gnome Merchandise being sold in proprietary platforms.
> 
> Which platforms are you seeing GNOME Merchandise being sold?  We
> currently have an agreement with Hackerthreads.
> 
> > 
> >  Just following the ideology behind GPL, shouldn't we encourage people
> > distributing goods gnome branded to do it in a Open Software platform and
> > promote the same ideals we do?
> 
> Do you have any recommendations of a store that meets these
> requirements?  When researching this subject last year I did not
> personally see any.  We have plans to move to Zazzle in the near future,
> which Mozilla uses as well. 
> 
> > 
> >  Thanks, in advance,
> >  
> >  Nelson
> > 
> 
> Paul