Re: FOSDEM T-Shirts online?

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 15:46, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote:

> > while I was staying at the KDE booth at FOSDEM, mostly close to the
> > end people were asking, if those shirts we had there will be available
> > online as well. Might be nice to have an official online eshop again and
> > sell KDE merchandise.
>
> I think that's a great idea! I would *love* to have a KDE coffee mug or
> KDE
> carrying bag. It might be a big hit...
>

I totally agree. People just love this stuff :)


>
> > Though I fully realize what it takes to run an eshop
> > and I'm not sure if the profits would cover the amount of work.
>
> I've been working a lot with an eCommerce platform called BigCartel that
> would probably take a good bit of the grunt work out of it. They host the
> files and all that. The thing about it is that it's a closed platform in
> the sense
> that they're not using something like Drupal or Magento, but it could help
> bring profits in without having to deal with more code and getting some
> people
> to run it. I'd like to hear others thoughts on the matter.
>

I meant more the administrative side of the work - someone has to take care
of the stock supplies, someone needs to send out the stuff, take care of
the money etc. Given that the only paid employee of KDE e.V. is Claudia in
the Berlin office and she is very busy already, we have noone who would
take care of that. Setting up the web is moreless a weekend's work :)

--
Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer



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