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 Foundation, which is not really their idea of the role of chapters.
Andrew ----- "Thomas Dalton" <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: "Thomas Dalton" <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> > To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Sent: Sunday, 13 September, 2009 23:12:46 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, > Portugal > Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Merchandising > > 2009/9/13 Andrew Turvey <andrewrtur...@googlemail.com>: > > 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 members only. > > Cost price? What is the point of that? Merchandising is a great way of > making money. I don't think the existence of members-only merchandise > is going to get many extra people to sign up. I would be happy to pay > a little extra for my WMUK t-shirts. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >
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