[Marketing] Stickers, shirts & other merchandiseil

[Bernie Innocenti]

On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 10:14 +0530, Outofindia wrote:
> Looks wonderful and good to have it all in one place.
> Also I guess anyone can use the design created here to create merchandise.
> 
> The possibilities are many.
> 
> I think it would be great if there is One shop under Sugar for all
> Sugar related merchandise...with different vendors setting up
> individual online stores and taking charge of marketing and the
> delivery of the orders...where you set up a fixed percentage that goes
> to Sugar Labs.
> 1. For being the umbrella
> 2. For use of the brand.
> 3. For the use of CC Designs
> 
> 
> Let me know if this idea works for the group because there is an
> online platform up and running that handles this kind of a
> structure...I've worked with them during their start-up phase, for
> online stores for my women of India project. (We are yet to launch the
> WOI store.)
> This way you wont need to sign multiple MOUs and track vendor sales
> and the whole process and communication gets kind of standardised.
> 
> I could ask for a very concessional rate for all vendors to host and
> manage the entire system and payment gateway etc. The system is tested
> and being used by large retailers and is very robust.

Speaking only for myself: thumbs up for those who want to create and
sell Sugar-branded merchandise, either commercially or on a volunteer
basis. I wouldn't expect this to represent a significant source of
revenue for us, but at least we'll all have something to wear when we go
to conferences :-)

If the Marketing Team is generally favorable to this proposal, I'll help
you integrate this shop with the rest of our infrastructure.

-- 
Bernie Innocenti
Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team