-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Vid Ayer wrote: > > If I understand correctly, the point being made is : If a commercial > initiative like your Shipping proposal is endorsed and promoted (via > the wiki or other community resources) who is to stop *anyone > (including commercial companies)* from promoting their resources on > our community wiki which has largely only relied on the good-will of > volunteers. That is a dangerous area, best avoided. > Not sure about the correctness of your logic. We have DIY pages and DIY material. These stickers are such DIY material - the entire set and all the half-dones etc. can be found here: http://doc.ubuntu.com/~marketing/spreadubuntu/DIY%20Material/Batch%201,%20Stickers/ Anyone can download these there, and that's one of the missions of Spreadubuntu.
Now I believe spreadubuntu, when offering these for download, could at the same time say, 'if you don't want or cannot download and print these yourself, some people of the community are also offering some of these materials for sale. To see a list of these, click here.' It wouldn't make sense not to. Just like ubuntu.com offers paid support. Now I see no risk in that, it's clearly stated that it's _only_ the material that's there, that we _want_ people to download and print, and we _want_ there to be lots of 'out there'. Now if everyone is to print their own batch of 100 stickers, the whole community loses money, compared to when a single person creates a larger batch and allows the community to use it as well if they contribute financially too. I don't see anyone worring that *anyone (including commercial companies)* would advertise in the paid support section? Preventing such an effort, or out-lawing it, pushing away form the community, is incredibly counter-productive and short sighted, IMHO. Please do come up with a _better_ way of getting printed materials out there. Without financial investment? Without risk of loss or profit? Sure, if you come up with one, I'm all for it. Please be constructive, not destructive. OTOH, if it is considered inappropriate to have a 'if you wish, you can order printed ones for price of printing and shipping here' on the wiki, it can be removed. Have a look at the back of the Ubuntu CD, though. Canonical ships source code for price of shipping and media (and so should anyone publishing GPL code/material). Jenda -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEu2dnkfxlW1GdBWoRArXUAKDRWYqo2sjMnBKI/i0BCz93vWlYdgCdG8H0 vmE/d7RNmFo36Ja2/A90evA= =9TZl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
