On 04/30/2017 09:37 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > On 30/04/17 14:18, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: >> 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. > > Let me put it another way: when you are trying to meet that demand from > people, do you make that effort because you want to raise money or > because of brand, community, etc?
I do it as a service to our community. Debian doesn't need to sell merchandise to raise money, the project gets more in donations than it spends. Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1
