[Evergreen-governance-l] Koha has swag, why can't we?

[Dan Scott]

Some updates on this critical issue:

On 7 December 2010 17:04, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 04:54:06PM -0500, Amy Terlaga wrote:
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>> What do we have to do to get our own?
>
> If we want to use the official logo on something like Cafe Press, we
> would need the permission of the trademark holder.

So -- Elizabeth McKinney?

> And we would want the
> proceeds to go to a trusted source... I can check to see if the
> Conservancy can be the direct recipient of profits from Cafe Press /
> similar shops.

The Conservancy is willing to do this - it has been an expressed
desire of other Conservancy member projects - if they can deal with a
shop that has higher ethical standards and product quality than
cafepress.com. I found Skreened (http://skreened.com/static/ethics)
which offers t-shirts and sounds promising, but for polo shirts, mugs,
laptop bags, etc, more research is required. If we found separate
online "best of breed" sources for each of these kinds of items, we
could always put a single page together that links to the separate
items wherever they live.

Of course, we could go ahead and do this with whatever shop we want,
as long as we have a trusted account to receive the profits and
forward to the Conservancy - and as long as we can live with possibly
sweatshop-produced goods. It does seem like a good opportunity to help
solve a problem for a number of Conservancy projects at once, though,
if we can find ethical & high-quality sources for the types of swag
that interest us.