Am Dienstag, den 29.03.2011, 12:10 -0400 schrieb David Nalley: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Michael Dinon <mdinon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > First off appologies in advance if question has been covered before and this > > isn't the right list, has there ever been any thought to have a Fedora store > > where proceeds from T-Shirt, laptop bag, stickers, and coffee mugs could > > benefit the Fedora project? Basically something like the store for the > > GNOME project. I am sure there must be a good reason why this doesn't > > already exist for the Fedora project, but I haven't found it as of yet. Oh > > and yes I know of the Red Hat mini Fedora store. > > > > -- > > Mike > > > > -- > > marketing mailing list > > marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > > > > So we've had numerous opportunities and even sub-projects attempting > to do so but it boils down to a few issues. > > The biggest is, we have no way do handle inbound money. Fedora is > legally a non-entity. So RHT is the de facto entity when Fedora comes > up, and the landscape for dealing with sales and corporate taxes is so > laden with landmines that every time we've discussed taking money it > appears impossible even from outside of RHT, I can only imagine there > are RHT-Finance and RHT-Legal types that automatically begin consuming > antacid when it's brought up. :) > > The second is, for expansive web stores like Mozilla and Ubuntu have > it requires a large commitment upfront, and management fees. This is > effectively 25% of Fedora's annual disretionary budget. While it's > likely that we'd recoup some if not all of that money, it's a big > chunk of change, and one does have to question if the return on > investment would be worthwhile. > > Fedora-fr maintains a spreadshirt site in France, but it's largely > shirts and clothing. Fedora's regional ambassadors do produce large > amounts of swag including, bathrobes, shirts, tattoos, buttons, > stickers, case badges, etc. These are freely given out at events that > fedora appears at. > > --David Hi David and list, we had a store owner here in Germany (when fedora EMEA e.V. was alive two years ago) who was willing to do all the things some Red Hat employees asked for; ... ... but it never happens because of another big issue: - trademark - signed contracts from RH kind regards Gerold
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