On 04/30/2017 01:53 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > - how do people view the distribution of merchandise, is the primary > goal fundraising or is it about brand exposure?
There are more reasons than these two. For the t-shirts that I had made and sold at the T-DOSE & FOSDEM conferences the primary motivation was user demand. Especially at T-DOSE I got several questions if we had T-shirts and had to tell them no, this resulted in having shirts made the next year. There is also a lot of demand for laptop stickers, which I haven't had made yet, but am considering. > - would it be reasonable for 1% - 2% of Debian's reserves to be tied up > in slow moving inventory items like t-shirts that take up to a year to > fully turnover? As the reserves are mostly kept in cash Debian probably > loses at least that much to inflation each year anyway. This is tricky, since Debian is non-profit and selling merch can be considered a for-profit activity. Having Debian funds available for merchandise will lower the barrier for Debian people to to have it made since they don't have to invest their own money. Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1
