On 22/12/2007, Oldak Quill <oldakquill(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 22/12/2007, Angela <beesley(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
This spun off from a different discussion
elsewhere, but I was
wondering about the possibility of printing Christmas cards based on
images from Commons. Maybe a partnership with a printing company could
be made for next year's fundraiser? (I'd buy them!)
Angela
I don't think Commons should officially release greetings cards for a
religious festival. Greetings cards could generate funds but would not
further our aims. Why don't we direct fundraising efforts at something
that will also further the aims of the Wikimedia Fondation and/or
Commons? Ideally, this would be something educational or informative.
For Wikipedia, for example, this might be producing and selling
WikiBooks to generate funds.
I also don't think Wikimedia/Commons should endorse one particular
religion (or religious festival) in this way. Transcending cultural
barriers is core to what we are trying to achieve and giving a nod to
a particular religious/cultural practice doesn't seem compatible.
People can write their own captions, eh.
Are you guys thinking of creating cards with limited flexibility -
choose from X pre-selected images and Y pre-selected messages - or
something where you can generate the card you want "on the fly"?
I think something in between would be really cool - let people choose
from any QI or FP, but also have default "here's one we prepared
earlier" options. (Sensible defaults are half the battle won when you
give people options I think :))
But the you have the whole thing of infrastructure, and who is
responsible and omgz-are-we-publishing-something, and who gets the
money at the end of the day. Like would it really be just a big
exercise in making profit for CafePress.
The partnership seems to be the sticking point. We seem to lack
suitable contacts.
cheers
Brianna
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