Right - but just to be clear, there's nothing stopping any chapter from producing materials for celebratory purposes.  In fact several of the celebrating groups produced their own variants of the t-shirts from the mock-ups posted on ten.wikipedia.org. Nothing should stop folks from producing beautiful stuff, though I will be the first to attest to the cost and overhead in making nice things come together. On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:16 PM, Elitre 82 wrote: I am afraid there is not much Steven can do at this point. The Foundation *needs* (in my humble opinion) to revise ASAP the merchandising agreements with the chapters so that those who used to produce and "sell" their own gadgets can do this again without this shipping madness which, by the way, does not seem very eco-friendly. Plus, chapters like the Italian one have a tradition in designing and printing beautiful stuff and should only be sustained in this, not blocked (again, my pov here). Elitre http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Elitre _______________________________________________ WikiX-l mailing list WikiX-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikix-l -- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org blog.wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609, @jansonw _______________________________________________ WikiX-l mailing list WikiX-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikix-l

Shipping finally arrived here in Hong Kong this morning actually FedEx service receive rather good reputation here my personal thought on this, if fellows are more willing to look into our e-mails such delay, at least in our case in HK, shall not happen (and thx for all staff involved to fix it, particularly Jay und Erik) On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 01:05, KIZU Naoko <aphaia(a)gmail.com> wrote: yes, but as I have said in some private e-mails as we are living in CHinese dominate area where we celebrate two new years within not more than one and a half month so it is difficult for us to order stuff after new year if we are clearly told, there is nothing will be sent to us we can still order sth here in Hong Kong but after the Gregorian new year, forget it, we can just do nothing so the main point we should learn here is we shall make the communication between WMF and chapter/ associated groups PS: I am not sure it is the time to doing some work on reorganizing and keep update the contact list between the Staffs and chapter as many new staffs will come, and more chapters will be approve -- Jerry~雨雨 Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan, ARAD http://about.me/jeromyu/bio http://jeromyu.blogspot.com also Jeromyu on twitter, plurk and most of places Tel (Mobile): +852 9279 1601 Perdat ego veni ut plasticum habeant et arachis habeant _______________________________________________ WikiX-l mailing list WikiX-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikix-l