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

[Williamson, Cynthia]

Always love an excuse to procrastinate on my "real" work!!  Thanks for the distraction.  Not sure of next steps here, if I can help I will.

Any of these look interesting, I'd want to ask more questions of any of them before committing to a big order but they all talk the right talk.

http://instashirt.com/customtshirts/ (Amy - if someone can provide you with a suitable graphics file, an order here prior to Dec 10th will get you a Tshirt for Xmas)

http://skreened.com/ (the one Dan mentioned, Dan have you dealt with them before?)

http://www.sayitgreen.com/index.html (these folks have aprons)

http://www.zazzle.com/ (this sounds like a neat place to work - they talk "high quality" & made in USA but it isn't clear that the actual t-shirts etc that they're using are made in USA, no obvious mentions of organic, fair trade etc.)

http://www.edunliveoncampus.com/ (this one sounds cool - student run, tshirts made in Africa but ethically/fairly done, they even have recycled boxes & "carbon neutral" shipping)

http://www.verdeagency.com/ (they have a special right now on white, short-sleeved organic cotton t-shirts with a 1 colour logo - $9 each.)  Also offer stuff other than clothing.

BTW: I'd take a T-shirt over a conference bag any day - dunno if others feel the same.  Maybe a question for the conference site - I'll make the suggestion.

Cheers, Cynthia

From: loriayre at gmail.com [mailto:loriayre at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Lori Bowen Ayre
Sent: December 8, 2010 12:41 PM
To: Williamson, Cynthia
Cc: Dan Scott; Amy Terlaga; evergreen-governance-l at list.georgialibraries.org
Subject: Re: [Evergreen-governance-l] Koha has swag, why can't we?

That would be great Cynthia.  I'd prefer higher quality options and would certainly like to avoid any sweatshop work.  Didn't know that was an issue with CafePress!

Lori
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Williamson, Cynthia <cynthia.williamson at mohawkcollege.ca<mailto:cynthia.williamson at mohawkcollege.ca>> 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

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From: evergreen-governance-l-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org<mailto:evergreen-governance-l-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org> [mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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<http://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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