Yes, exactly re fun and teambuilding. And to that point, one of the benefits of CafePress is actually its findability and ease of use - people expect to find WMF material there, and they do. (I say this as a person who went and found and bought our stuff there, long before I ever saw the CP link on our site - I'm probably not alone in that.)
And although I too have heard the complaints about quality, my shirts are holding up fine :-)
Regardless, yes, Vishal has been looking at this, and yes, it has not been a particularly high priority. Really it's the branding company who will handle it, if we sign with one. They will have the industry knowledge and the relationships to make a recommendation for what's best.
Thanks, Sue
-----Original Message----- From: Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:40:16 To:foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Alternatives to Cafepress
Erik Moeller wrote:
On 8/26/07, Sean Whitton sean@silentflame.com wrote:
Right now we have the Cafepress shop for T-shirts and the like, but in general the quality of the products that Cafepress produce is pretty low. I am told that whilst gentoo has a shop there, the conference organisers actually use a seperate company to produce much the same thing for the conferences due to the lack of quality described. While I haven't bought any T-shirts from them thus far, other things I have bought have been of similar poor quality.
Last time I checked, Vishal was comparing multiple alternatives. This likely doesn't have any priority right now as the revenue from merchandising tends to be comparatively small.
There is also the proposition from the branding company. If we sign a deal with them, it would be within their role to find a more suitable (if more suitable there is) company for tee-shirt printing I guess.
I agree it is not a priority from a "revenue" point of view; This said, from a consumer point of view, the quality is a little bit more important than "revenue" :-) If tee-shirts do not bring significant revenue, then the quality is a priority over revenue... Exploring options to change tee-shirt providers and taking primarily into account revenue as a variable is, imho, a mistake. Tee-shirts are not done to bring money, but mostly because it is fun and team building.
LINK ! http://www.aboutus.org/WikiWear.org
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I'm fairly happy with everything I've purchased through CP, but I'm probably about 20 degrees removed from a person who could give an informed opinion about such matters. That said, mere rumors and personal anecdotes are not particularly compelling. I'd like to hear some more substantive criticisms than "poor quality", preferably a comparison of multiple vendors published in a reliable source. If it's not sufficiently sourced by Wikipedia's standards of inclusion, it's not enough to base a decision on. ;-)
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