(Migrating from a previous private ticket at https://fedorahosted.org/board-private/ticket/104)
The idea of having a Fedora Gear Store is old and some attempts have already been taken to make it happen (sadly without success, yet).
I would like to bring up this topic again as it would be a real benefit for the project.
There are several ways to make it happen and I only want to give a few suggestions:
A central Fedora Gear Store (located at e.g. http://gear.fedoraproject.org) driven by Red Hat, but allowing the Artwork SIG to contribute new designs and extending the amount of different swag compared to the Cool Stuff Store. The swag should be sold at cost price so no budget re-funding to the project would be necessary. Sales statistics should be published on a regular basis.
A community driven store like: http://communitystore.mozilla.org with fixed guidelines and rules. Artists could directly upload their design, but it has to be proven by a project member who knows the trademark rules very well.
Allow local ambassador groups to produce (and hand out) their own swag. This is the direction Mozilla is targeting to, right now. The disadvantage is, that it's quite hard to control the quality of the goods (which may vary a lot, depending on the local producer.)
It's also hard to guarantee the the trademark guidelines are fulfilled, but I think that responsible ambassadors could be briefed on that.
I hope that we could find a way to make this happen.
Greets Marcus
Last (substantial) comment on the private ticket was from spot, who said:
We should revisit this idea. I think we can actually do something here. I'll circle with Ruth on this.
As noted on mailing list, Ruth is looking into this. Will leave open to check back later.
Ruth, Spot, any update on this? Any action I can take or anything I can help with?
I've got a conversation open with Staples (which runs the Red Hat store) about what the logistics will be, and I'm looking for others to compare costs with but coming up a little short on the list there.
Awesome -- thanks!
Continues to be In Progress. I'll ask for an update from Ruth when she has time.
This is a thing (and has been for a couple of months)! Thanks Ruth! http://store.fedoraproject.org/
FWIW, this URL is non-functional, it redirects to https://redhat.corpmerchandise.com/ErrorPage.aspx . The main https://redhat.corpmerchandise.com/ web site is also non-functional, as all the links are broken (opkwebpr03pesg.americanid.int doesn't exist and americanid.int is not even registered).
Thanks for the report. I assume that it's just a temporary problem with the vendor, but I'll report it to the RH people who deal with it.
It was just temporary — it's working now.
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