Merchandise

[Todd Kelsey]

Glad to be helpful if I can - not sure what is needed - personally I would
love to see another round of OLPC World Tour band passes become available.
See http://tinyurl.com/olpcworldtour

It's not on-demand like cafepress per se but if a small bit of funding were
available I think I could figure out a way to do fulfillment - a pretty
cheap way to do something that would be pretty tribal and probably fun for
most anyone who would have one. At least a great deal of fun for me to wear
one on a lanyard and self-identify with the past and present full time
workers and volunteers of olpc, all of whom are my eternal heroes.

I am finishing a budget for an OLPC-related grant proposal today and I'm
thinking about including a line item for a fundraising album, and a "virtual
world tour", so if I do that I could include something to make some t-shirts
and band passes available. I think a small amt of $$ in t-shirts, band
passes and music could go a long way in capturing imaginations.

In the low/no overhead category, I'm personally in favor of mainly mugs and
t-shirts, especially if anyone had advanced to the point of offering the
ability to do black t-shirts with on demand art, which I don't know if there
is.

But it still feels as though maybe one of the longest term, cheapest impacts
could be getting something going in the area of "cause cards", just giving
people the ability to order business cards and put an OLPC theme on the
second side, pointing to a url where impact is clearly demonstrated and then
having a pitch url for donating - http://tinyurl.com/causecards


On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>wrote:

> Mel Chua wrote:
> \> I think this would be quiet nice, with the "add an X% donation to
> Sugar
> > Labs!" option by the cart. Stickers, shirts, sugar-on-a-stick sticks,
> > and liveCDs would be good things for starters.
>
> The Zazzle (http://www.zazzle.com/) web site that Nick proposed is
> perfect to do this with very little overhead for us.  We just need
> someone to publish the designs and a wiki page to point people at them.
>
> The downside is that their gadgets are somewhat expensive and even
> more so when shipped overseas to Europe.  I'd say let's do this and
> then find a better solution when someone steps up to do it.
>
> Todd Kelsey (cc'd), did an amazing job with unofficial OLPC
> merchandise last year.  Maybe he has ideas and suggestions?
>
> David Farning wrote:
> > Look to the fedora ambassadors for advice and guidance.  They are
> > really good at getting out the word _cheaply_
>
> Do you have specific contacts?  Greg?
>
>
> > What permission would have to be asked to start this up? For instance,
> > could I (as a volunteer) fire up a cafepress store or an
> > xoexplosion-like thing and donate some or all of the profits* to SL and
> > if so who (if anyone) would we have to ask, could only Sugar Labs start
> > Ye Olde Sugar Swag Shoppe, etc?
> >
> > Something to talk about at the next Marketing meeting, though I am
> > not sure who the Legal Stuffs Expert Type Peoples To Speak With are.
> > Any ideas? *adds to agenda*
>
>
> We have already agreed some time ago that we will adopt the same
> trademark policy of the Wikipedia:
>
>   http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logo_and_trademark_policy
>
> It just needs to be documented somewhere in our MarketingTeam pages.
>
> --
>   // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/
>  \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://www.sugarlabs.org/
>



-- 
- Todd Kelsey
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