[Foundation-l] Report to the Board July 2009

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/9/26 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 2009/9/26 Samuel Klein <meta.sj at 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.

The no profit rule was apparently just a WMUK idea that was
resoundingly rejected on our mailing list.