[Kde-events] Merchandising again - The boring part

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Thursday 19 April 2007 21:37:34 Valerie Hoh wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 02:18:05PM +0200, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > I've had a phone call with fidu yesterday. They're very open to working
> > together with us. Basically everything we want is possible, that includes
> > printing our own designs, logistics (having stuff sent to events), buying
> > on comission (under certain circumstances). The prices they offer are
> > *much* lower than what we get from kernelconcepts (which is basically a
> > reseller if I understand that correctly). We're talking about 40% off
> > here. :-)
>
> KC isn't necessarily a reseller - we got all the stuff we had last
> akademy from them, and they only resold the pins, since they were
> reluctant to produce merchandizing that was already produced by someone
> else. Everything else was "their" stuff.

Hm, at least also the t-shirts come from OpenSourceFactory (which essentially 
is now Fidu) as well.

> > I'm now walking through older emails with suggestions on what we want and
> > might want and will pass that list on to Fidu for a feasibility check and
> > to get price indications.
>
> Should we get prices from KC as well, so we have a basis for comparison?

I do have the pricelist for the stuff we sold at FOSDEM, so comparison is easy 
already. I might also dig up the one for aKademy last year.

> > We've agreed that we'll try working together for Linuxtag and possibly
> > aKademy. (aKademy t-shirts are done by the local team, the rest is up to
> > us.)
> >
> > I've also worked out a 'standard procedure' (which is already OK'ed by
> > the KDE e.V. Board). This is what I have in mind:
> >
> > - We have a form to request merch for a specific event, the form is
> > (probably after review of someone else) sent to the Board and Fidu
> > - The form includes requested stuff, and who's responsible for handling
> > the financials
> > - Fidu makes sure the the Board is OK with it and invoices the KDE e.V.
> > - The merch is sent to whereever the requester asks
> > - ... the event takes place, not everything is sold ...
> > - After the event, the remains are put into the boothbox, a list of
> > remaining items is sent to a central place (someone would need to keep
> > track!) - The incoming money + an overview of what's sold and why there's
> > a difference in cash (there always is!) is sent to the board
> > - The board (or preferably some coordinating person) checks those figures
> > for   correctness
> >
> > I'm obviously willing to be of substantial help here, but I'd very much
> > appreciate people stepping up helping with this. It's not a huge amount
> > of work, but it takes some discipline to sit down from time to time and
> > check everything's OK. We're dealing with e.V. money here, and at the
> > same time with volunteers.
>
> I guess I'll do that, since I already asked for and offered help to
> establish such a standard workflow.

Great :-)

> > Comments are welcome.
>
> Great. Where's the boring part you promised?

On today's TODO list. Hang on. :-)
-- 
sebas

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