Re: GNOME Store

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

FYI to all. Hackerthreads currently sells some GNOME merchandising and shares the revenue with us. 

We are discussing opening our own store (using Zazzle) over which we'd have more control over products, design, etc. The board just wants to make sure that nothing in the agreement we currently have with hackerthreads prevents that. (And it looks like we are ok, but I'm having our attorney give it a quick read.)

I do think we should work to keep a good relationship with hackerthreads so we should let them know our plans (I can do that) and we should  try to avoid unnecessarily competing with their products.

Stormy

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org> wrote:

I checked and we're one vote shy. There was positive reaction but it
stalled on knowing exactly what we've agreed to with hackerthreads. We
don't seem to have a copy of the agreement on file.

I think whatever we do, we'll need to make sure to work with
hackerthreads to maintain that relationship.

A couple of notes on hackerthreads from Rosanna:
- we get $4 per item sold
- they were the ones who came up with the decals, polo, and hat ideas
- in one quarter, they were happy with how things sold and gave us an
extra $100 in donation

>From them we made:
2006 $172
2007 $504
2008   $68
2009 $264

I've pinged the board again and I'll ping hackerthreads again as well ...

Stormy

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Paul Cutler

<pcutler foresightlinux org> wrote:
> Hi Stormy - have you had an opportunity to get board approval?  Just
> thinking we may want to think about where this lives with the wgo revamp.
>
> Paul
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org> wrote:
>>
>> I think we get board approval and set up an account.
>>
>> I can get board approval. I can also set up the account on Monday. (I'm
>> off this afternoon through Monday.)
>>
>> Stormy
>>
>> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Paul Cutler <pcutler foresightlinux org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm glad to see the agreement in choosing Zazzle!  I'm not sure of the
>>> process - are there any other individuals who we need approval from?
>>>
>>> If not, who can help with some of the adminsitrative steps to move
>>> forward?
>>>
>>> * Inform Hackerthreads of a change
>>> * Set up a Zazzle account (http://www.zazzle.com/sell)
>>>
>>> I am supposed to meeting with Lucas soon to discuss a roadmap for the
>>> gnome-web team after last Monday's meeting.   I'd recommend we wrap some of
>>> the action items regarding creating a store (CSS) into the overall gnome-web
>>> plan (which is scheduled for release with 2.28).  This may make the most
>>> sense as the look and feel of the GNOME website will change with the Plone
>>> rollout, and we'll want that look in the Zazzle store.
>>>
>>> In talking to Andreas in IRC yesterday he mentioned that there may be
>>> some artwork ready to go, such as the popular green one, and a few others.
>>>
>>> The other option is to launch a more basic store now, with some of the
>>> designs Andreas mentioned, in an effort to make a little money sooner.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:40 AM, Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dave Neary wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Stormy Peters wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> +1 for Zazzle.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Idem. In fact, back in 2004, the only reason we didn't go with Zazzle
>>>>> was that they were US only, and we would have had to theme our web page
>>>>> ourselves to make it look & feel like a gnome.org page. The first one
>>>>> is
>>>>> no longer true, I think, and the second is perhaps not a blocker.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I haven't looked into detail how much control you actually get over the
>>>> design, but when playing around with it in Firebug yesterday, I was able to
>>>> get okayish results in a matter of minutes. Lots of divs to style!
>>>> So not a blocker at all. Lets go for it!
>>>> - Andreas
>>>> --
>>>> marketing-list mailing list
>>>> marketing-list gnome org
>>>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
>>>
>>
>
>