Currently if someone wants to get a Fedora-branded shirt or other item, they must go to a conference or show where our ambassadors are to try to get a shirt.
I would like to propose extending spot's "Thank You" system 1 of returning stickers in self-addressed stamped envelopes to other Fedora swag that we hand out at conferences and the like. The process would look something like this:
This takes care of most of the issues with setting up some sort of Fedora Swag Store, most notably the "we can't accept money" issue. (That being said I haven't talked to Legal about doing this yet and I wanted to discuss it here first.)
I'm proposing that we do this on a trial basis, perhaps until FUDCon Lawrence, so we can see if it is well received in the community and other strange issues don't come up.
A couple of further thoughts on this. I don't really see any legal issue aside from not being able to send certain items to certain places. Prepaid shipping was easy with stickers, that will be a little more complicated with things with varying weights and sizes. I'm not sure how easy it will be to deal with overseas shipments. Those are normally more involved than slap a label on it and ship it.
I'd like to gather some resources for a trial. What stock do we have that we can comfortably spare at the moment? I suspect shirts are in very low supply, stickers/case badges/pens are plentiful. If this is all we have I'm not sure pens are enough to go beyond sending in a SASE for stickers/case badges.
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I'm not sure how easy it will be to deal with overseas shipments. Those are normally more involved than slap a label on it and ship it.
I don't want to deal with anything outside the US, specifically for that reason. If ambassadors in another country want to do this they can, and that ambassador is definitely not me.
I should mention that the SASE-only pilot will not support anything outside of the US either.
If this is all we have I'm not sure pens are enough to go beyond sending in a SASE for stickers/case badges.
I think I could fit one or two pens in a first class envelope and it'd still ship.
Also, for transparency's sake, I made a request for the pilot materials here over on the private Trac. The request is for: * 2000 laptop stickers * 500 pens * 500 case badges
Just removing this ticket from the meeting agenda until such time as the legal block is removed. Just add the meeting tag back when that happens please.
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I don't have the time to spearhead this anymore.
I'd still love to see something like this happen, but it won't be my doing :)
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