2009/9/26 Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com:
Mike Godwin completed a first draft of the revised trademark policy.
- Nice. Does this mean we are closer to a world in which awesome
Wikimedia swag is easy to come by... and not through cafepress? [ sorry, CP! :) ]
The chapters still can't do such things locally in a financially feasible manner, i.e. one that doesn't result in boxes of shirts under the bed forever. (Been there, got the box of T-shirts. I think we gave them to the local charity shop after ten years.) Current rules are that chapters can make stuff at no profit, only for members. This is, in practice, completely unworkable and functionally equivalent to declaring it impossible.
This desirable thing won't happen until there's a feasible way for chapters to print and sell logo merchandise at a profit.
The problem is the extent to which a chapter may just turn into a merchandise store. Which is a horribly plausible bad outcome, after all.
(My workaround? Iron on T-shirt transfers made on an inkjet ;-) )
- d.