[FAmSCo] Ideas needed - Issue with Fedora branded items - no where to get them even for money?

[Jiri Eischmann]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Clint Savage" <herlo at fedoraproject.org>
> To: "Jiri Eischmann" <eischmann at redhat.com>, "Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee" <famsco at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 12:13:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [FAmSCo] Ideas needed - Issue with Fedora branded items - no where to get them even for money?
> 
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Jiri Eischmann <jeischma at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Christoph Wickert" <christoph.wickert at gmail.com>
> >> To: famsco at lists.fedoraproject.org
> >> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 8:38:27 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [FAmSCo] Ideas needed - Issue with Fedora branded
> >> items - no where to get them even for money?
> >>
> >> Am Montag, den 11.02.2013, 19:21 +0100 schrieb Buddhike Kurera:
> >> >
> >> > The Problem : Fedora fans would like to get Fedora branded stuff
> >> > (expensive stuff) for an example polo t-shirts, jackets, bags
> >> > and
> >> > so
> >> > on.
> >> >
> >> > Benefit : Enabling such will help us to spread the Fedora brand
> >> > and
> >> > make our fans happy.
> >> >
> >> > Option 1 : Produce such branded items and give them free.
> >>
> >> At the moment, this is the only option we have. However giving
> >> away
> >> expensive stuff for free will hurt our budget. Unless we suddenly
> >> get
> >> way more money then in the past, we can only purchase small
> >> quantities.
> >> This will not really help spreading Fedora as a brand. We would
> >> probably
> >> prefer our contributors, so we still don't have an offer for our
> >> fans.
> >
> > This doesn't fly. We produced quite a lot of baseball caps and mugs
> > and what I brought to FOSDEM was not enough for our contributors,
> > not mentioning other people. And if you start giving free stuff
> > away you'll suddenly have several hundred people at your booth
> > asking for the free stuff. Price is also a great regulator.
> 
> I don't know that this is a bad thing. I mean, if you really want to
> get Fedora out there, free stuff is not a bad thing. Just limit what
> you give away each day and it works well to promote and encourage
> regulation.

Well, I'd like to give that stuff to people who are really interested and will use it, not to "exhibition collectors" that collect everything that is free from fliers to T-shirts just to bring it home and find out they don't want it and need it. But that's not a major problem, the major problem is that we can't produce expensive stuff in reasonable quantities. At least in EMEA, we don't have money for that. And it doesn't make much sense to bring three hoodies to a conference to give them away.

Jiri