Board question regarding non-software goods.

Jaroslav Reznik jreznik at redhat.com
Thu Feb 23 16:03:02 UTC 2012



----- Original Message -----
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > ----- 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.
> 
> My understanding of the requirements for every order from last weeks
> call is the quantity and locations need to be tracked to prove active
> and continued usage of the trademark by RHT which is part of the
> requirements for keeping the trademark.

The idea is - you can have preapproved stuff with guidelines how to 
produce it and request the information of quantity produced/distributed
to be send to some central point.

R.

> Peter
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