> We are looking to have all of the purchase transactions, printing and > such handled by a 3rd party. Fedora does not currently have the means > to handle maintaining the inventory or purchasing infrastructure. > This has had us looking at places like cafepress, spreadshirt.com and > such who do printing on demand to help make sure Fedora Project does > not end up with money sitting on shelves as inventory. That's a very reasonable concern :) > >From the 3rd party print on demand vendors the Store SIG has evaluated > so far, spreadshirt.com seems to offer the most reasonable solution at > the moment. Some of the pros and cons for them are listed here (as > are some from other vendors we looked at): > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Store/PotentialDistributors > > Spreadshirt does offer American Apparel shirts who say they are > "sweatshop free". They also offer an organic shirt which is listed > as: One concern I'd have is that "sweatshop free" is very different to somebody receiving a fair wage for their work. But I guess it's a step in the right direction. > "Certified by the Control Union World Group, to the Organic Exchange > 100 guidelines and the SKAL International standards for sustainable > textile production." Organic cotton is a significant +. I don't suppose people know about the issues surrounding growing cotton, but it does account for approximately 15-20% of the world's pesticide use, some of which makes it's way into water supplies etc. > Now, spreadshirt also offers more traditional shirts and are not an > exclusive Fair Trade shop. But at least we present a potential Fedora > store customer with a choice to support fair trade. I guess my question would be, if we have the option, would we want to support non-fair trade and manufacturing practices? >> Is fair trade popular in the US? It's certainly gaining traction here >> in the UK and I'd be happy to work on this. I already have a few >> possible connections that I'd be able to explore. > > To be honest, I am not sure how popular it is in the US. My wife > keeps our family very well aware of it and she does make an effort to > buy fair trade goods. Not sure how prevalent it is beyond my > household though. :) > > If you have something in mind, feel free to outline the details and > post to the list and update the Potential Distributors page: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Store/PotentialDistributors I will see what I can come up with :) I think the print on demand limit could be a problem though, but I'm at least pleased to see that spreadshirt.com makes some effort! Best wishes, Jon -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
