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

[Amy Terlaga]

Remember to find fashionable items, too!

On 12/8/2010 12:03 PM, Williamson, Cynthia wrote:
> I love the idea of Evergreen stuff and I too would really like to see us using ethical/fair trade/organic/ and of course high quality stuff as much as possible.  I'm happy to do some searching for some sources, will report back on what I find.
> Cheers, Cynthia
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: evergreen-governance-l-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:evergreen-governance-l-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dan Scott
> Sent: December 8, 2010 9:26 AM
> To: Amy Terlaga
> Cc: evergreen-governance-l at list.georgialibraries.org
> Subject: Re: [Evergreen-governance-l] Koha has swag, why can't we?
>
> 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:
> <snip>
>>> 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.
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