On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Raphael Bircher <r.birc...@gmx.ch> wrote: > Hi at all > > At the old OOo project, we have had T-Shirts. There was existing many > different versions of OOo shirts. Moastly they was payed, designed and > distributed by one of the OOo related associations. Same Country have had > also Fan Shirts wich are selled by OOo related NGO's. One T-Shirt was > donated by SUN Microsystems. To have a T-Shirt is a nice thing, if you go to > represent AOO at a Event. The old shirts are compleetly outdated. (the old > dark blue logo and a logo from a company who is no longer existent) I realy > like to have a new Shirt. Samething like a Committer Shirt, what you think > about? > > But there are different problems. Since we have not our own monay at > Apache, it's hard to solve the payment question. As far as I know, it's not > allowd to put a sponsor on the shirt. I think you hit Traidmarke Issues from > the ASF with it. And a Shirt will cost money. Maybe we can offer the Sponsor > a Blog Post. >
This is covered by existing ASF trademark policy. See the section called "Using Apache trademarks on merchandise" here: http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/ And you cans see what other products have done with this Google query: shirt site:apache.org > The other topic is to distribute the Shirt all over the world. I realy like > the Idea, but I'm simply on the wrong place to do samething like that. > Switzerland is one of the moast expensive country in the world. Yes, I can > do it from here, but finaly, it costs a load more then from a other country. > > I would realy like to have one for the ApacheCon Europe > > What do you think about? > The simplest method, I think, is to have have a volunteer design a shirt, seem permission from the PPMC for the use of the logo and then work with a 3rd party, like CafePress, to print the shirts. There are probably other, less expensive options, but they would be more complicated, in terms of funding and distribution. -Rob > Greetings Raphael > > > -- > My private Homepage: http://www.raphaelbircher.ch/
