On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 02:18:11PM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > On 04/30/2017 01:53 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > - 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.
Debian should avoid being in the hard good business. If we want to make it easy for people to obtain Debian-branded / Debian-benefiting products, we could go with a print-on-demand service such as https://scalablepress.com/ or https://printaura.com/, using a storefront we put ourselves, use theirs, or use a 3rd party such as https://www.etsy.com. If this is to be done as 'Debian', then we will need SPI's involvement. -- Luca Filipozzi http://www.crowdrise.com/SupportDebian
