2009/9/25 Gordon Joly :
>David Gerard wrote:
>>It's REALLY EASY for a charity to end up with boxes of T-shirts under the bed.
> I second that!
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/loopzilla/72034640/
I've only just realised that I missed my chance to say "been there,
got the hundred T-shirts" there.
>
>It's REALLY EASY for a charity to end up with boxes of T-shirts under the bed.
I second that!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/loopzilla/72034640/
Gordo
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2009/9/14 Jarry1250 :
> I agree. The only thing is to add really is that branded T-Shirts might
> be good for WMUK people to wear at (informal) events where they
> represent the friendly face of Wikipedia.
Indeed. I actually need to get around to making a homemade Wikipedia
shirt or two I can ke
>
> A restriction to "members-only merchandise" is wrong, doubly so with current
> low membership levels. When you're talking about a 10k+ member base, then I
> can see a point to members-exclusive merchandise; this complementing a range
> of items available to the wider public.
I agree. The only t
2009/9/14 Andrew Turvey :
> Re-reading my original email and the reaction to it I should clarify:
>
> - "Andrew Turvey" wrote:
>> The plan is to sell them at cost price to members only.
>
> "Cost price" isn't a restriction from the Foundation - their main
> restriction is that it must be eith
2009/9/14 Andrew Turvey :
> Discussions so far have focussed on very limited sales, order on
> demand only. No one wants to spend lots of effort doing this, or
> taking any significant levels of stock. I don't think it has any
> potential to be a major source of funding so I don't suggest we go
> d
Re-reading my original email and the reaction to it I should clarify:
- "Andrew Turvey" wrote:
> The plan is to sell them at cost price to members only.
"Cost price" isn't a restriction from the Foundation - their main restriction
is that it must be either sold only to members or given a
On Sep 14, 11:37 am, WereSpielChequers
wrote:
> ... but with a market of
> 30 you can expect the price per item to be exorbitant.
> WereSpielChequers
Vistaprint, for instance, can do a single custom made double sided T
shift for less than a tenner - of course the price comes down the more
you o
The main monetary benefits of charity status are being able to reclaim
Gift Aid on donations and reduced rates on expenses like room hire and
paypal fees. These are far larger than any profit on T-shirt sales
would ever be.
Andrew
On Sep 14, 9:34 am, Gordon Joly wrote:
> At 23:40 +0100 13/9/09,
Thanks everyone for their responses. Back to the original questions:
- what kind of thing would you, personally, be interested in buying or
getting as a gift? Tshirts, mousemats, cufflinks?
- how much would you be willing to spend?
- what logos would you like? Wikipedia? WMUK, complete family?
Di
2009/9/14 Thomas Dalton :
> 2009/9/14 WereSpielChequers :
>> I'm not a fan of merchandising as part of a charities function. But if
>> it is done it should have the saving grace of having a sufficient
>> markup to help finance the organisation.
> It's not a matter of being a fan or not - merchand
2009/9/14 WereSpielChequers :
> I'm not a fan of merchandising as part of a charities function. But if
> it is done it should have the saving grace of having a sufficient
> markup to help finance the organisation.
It's not a matter of being a fan or not - merchandising is not part of
our function,
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Merchandising
> I'm not a fan of merchandising as part of a charities function. But if
> it is done it should have the saving grace of having a sufficient
> markup to help finance the organisation.
Agreed. It isn't something you can do without
Whilst mousemats and coffee mugs can be made to the same size, T
shirts need to be made in multiple sizes. And despite what happen at
Wikimania in Buenos Aires, that normally involves the complication of
different garment sizes rather than just printing M, X, or XL on the
same sized garment. If yo
2009/9/14 Thomas Dalton :
> 2009/9/14 Brian McNeil :
>> I would take it as a given that this would be restricted to UK-only delivery
>> to avoid trading on the WMF's toes, or that of any other chapters.
>
> "Wikipedia" t-shirts should probably be UK-only. "Wikimedia UK"
> t-shirts may as well be gl
2009/9/14 Brian McNeil :
> I would take it as a given that this would be restricted to UK-only delivery
> to avoid trading on the WMF's toes, or that of any other chapters.
"Wikipedia" t-shirts should probably be UK-only. "Wikimedia UK"
t-shirts may as well be global, although I'm not sure many pe
, or that of any other chapters.
Brian.
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2009/9/14 WereSpielChequers :
> With only about 30 members the UK chapter is at a very early stage
> with a limited internal market. If you had 3,000 members you could get
> some economy of scale and order say 100 T shirts, but with a market of
> 30 you can expect the price per item to be exorbitan
With only about 30 members the UK chapter is at a very early stage
with a limited internal market. If you had 3,000 members you could get
some economy of scale and order say 100 T shirts, but with a market of
30 you can expect the price per item to be exorbitant. Producing
ties, mousemats, cufflin
At 23:40 +0100 13/9/09, Andrew Turvey wrote:
>Hopefully it will be the kind of perk that will attract people who
>are already active in the projects to become members. As to selling
>at above cost, the Foundation wasn't too keen on that - worried that
>we would develop into some kind of commerci
2009/9/13 Andrew Turvey :
> Hopefully it will be the kind of perk that will attract people who are
> already active in the projects to become members. As to selling at above
> cost, the Foundation wasn't too keen on that - worried that we would develop
> into some kind of commercial arm of the Foun
eally their idea of the
role of chapters.
Andrew
- "Thomas Dalton" wrote:
> From: "Thomas Dalton"
> To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Sent: Sunday, 13 September, 2009 23:12:46 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland,
> Portugal
> Subject: Re: [Wiki
2009/9/13 Andrew Turvey :
> We've received approval from the Wikimedia Foundation to produce
> merchandising with Wikimedia trademarks and copyrighted logos on it for sale
> to our members - anything from mugs and mouse-mats to cufflinks and ties. The
> plan is to sell them at cost price to memb
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