[Marketing] Stickers, shirts & other merchandiseil

[Rafael Ortiz]

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at sugarlabs.org>wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 03:27 +0100, Gary Martin wrote:
>
> > To get the ball rolling again on this I've tried to pull together the
> > various t-shirt designs I have floating about so far onto one page. It
> > includes a tidy up of the Activity logo surrounded by its name in
> > different languages (if there's no strong objection to this design I'd
> > like to do this for a few more activities, say Turtle Art/Blocks,
> > Write, Paint, <insert your fav activity here>). Feedback welcome:
> >
> >       http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/T-Shirt
> >
> > I've linked to it from the Marketing_Team/Swag page.
> >
> > Another likely design is the Sugar Labs logo, large across the front,
> > with a few activities and users casually positioned about (booth
> > banner/neighbourhood view like).
>
> Gray, these designs are just AMAZING!
>
> We've already started printing 50 shirts all with the same design, but I
> bet they'll run out quick.
>
> Dogi expressed interest in setting up shop.sugarlabs.org as a part-time
> business. Perhaps we could find an agreement with him to donate a
> certain percentage of the profits to Sugar Labs.
>
> As for me, I'm going to sell the first batch at T-shirts at cost + a
> voluntary donation to Sugar Labs. If the volumes became interesting, we
> could think of a better way to handle it, but I doubt they'll ever
> become interesting: the FSF, with over 5000 members, sells barely enough
> to justify the operating costs of the online shop.
>
>
A way to speed up sales could be asking nation-wide deployments to help with
distribution or set up of specific web-stores for each country..in each
distribution page there should be an statement that percentage of that sales
is to help SugarLabs on sugar's development.

Just a thought.





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