On Wednesday 12 September 2007 11:43:05 am Michael Loeffler wrote:
Hi,
find below a status update and backround info on what Robert and myself currently working. And let's start discussion about what to offer in a shop.openSUSE.org. I'd suggest to keep the sortiment at the beginning small. I'd suggest to start with a 3-5 branded items which could be: - a black t-shirt - a cap - a mug - sticker (provided shop offer that) - pin/button (provided shop offer that)
Status: We plan to offer merchandise stuff to anybody interested in. As we are not professionals in providing such stuff and have budget constraints we need a vendor doing that for us. The vendor needs to offer shipment to EMEA + NA be world wide shipment. We found cafepress.com offering that, registered a openSUSE shop there (http://www.cafepress.com/openSUSE - filled currently with one sample product) and need to brand the shop and set up a first set of products offered there.
Shipping overseas is not cheap. The price on sample coffee cup is already high, adding shipping will make it even worse.
We recently found spreadshirt.net offering a similar service but more feature rich for a shopkeeper and offered in different languages but currently they don't ship to NA. I asked them this week if they plan to ship to NA. So, we wait for an aswer by spreadshirt. If they will offer NA shipment as well we tend to start our shop there.
I guess that they are looking for partner(s) overseas. They probably need some time to get offer(s). BTW, the sample coffee cup design is too simple, some funny quote can make it look much better. I would call guys that read this list to give a hand and add some quotes to http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:My_motto that can be used on merchandise. -- Regards, Rajko. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org