Board question regarding non-software goods.

[Jaroslav Reznik]

----- Original Message -----
> On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 17:44 -0500, David Nalley wrote:
> > Need for swag is discussed and agreed to by regional groups such as
> > FAmNA, EMEA Ambassadors, in public. Designs either generated or
> > proofed by Fedora Design (or are designs that have been generated
> > or
> > approved in the past) and are then ordered
> 
> FWIW there has been more than a trivial amount of swag that has not
> gone
> through design team approval and print-ready artwork has not been
> proofed with the design team, resulting in incorrect colors (RGB
> instead
> of correct CMYK colorspace) and the wrong usage of fonts (usually due
> to
> not flattening fonts to paths) in the final product. For the most
> part,
> logo manipulations do go through either the logo queue or the Design
> team, but I have been disappointed in the past by designs with errors
> that could have been prevented.

The question is more about producing already approved/designed (by Design
team) designs, mostly already produced before as if I understand the
policy draft correctly - the approval is needed for *every* new order.

I'm not questioning the need to go for approval from you design ninjas
for a new designs. Like from Marketing Collateral [1] wiki. Even I think 
some designs there are already obsolete or does not match the current
TM policy.

It would probably makes sense to have authorized Marketing stuff with 
up-to-date artwork, following all logo/design guidelines/policies and
say that's already pre-approved design that could be used for SWAG.
And just notify Legal or whoever is interested (I think even for us
it makes some sense to have statistics) with the information about
of SWAG produced/distributed.

Jaroslav

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_collateral

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