Diaspora Merchandise

I don't know much about how the D* trademark is handled, currently, but I think some people might actually buy stuff that is branded with D* (t-shirts, coffee mugs, stickers...)

The profits would have to be bound to a specific goal (financing JD.com, paying developers, ice cream*, ...)

... and it goes without saying that global shipping would, of course, be necessary.

• everybody loves ice cream

This has been requested by many people. Myself would love some D* t-shirts, stickers, etc.

I guess at the moment there is only one organization that can do this - Diaspora, Inc. Since obviously the money needs to go somewhere and there is no foundation etc yet :)

Maybe some integration to some art -> t-shirt web platforms could be included someday optional in Diaspora for podmins to easily activate - supplied with a few sample images and of course they could add their own? This way it would show up like paypal etc on the Diaspora right panel - would just need to podmin to set up the shop and add the ID to config. I know like Redbubble would prob work.

This is an interesting thought, but two issues stand out to me:

1. Who would handle the raised funds?
2. How would those funds be handled to take care of things?

david morley (diasp.org) already do that : http://www.cafepress.fr/diasporg

True, but that's specifically just for his pod. What Florian proposes is basically official Diaspora merchandise.

I had some discussions a year ago about this, with Yosem. I have a friend who runs a small alternative company designing and producing T-shirts, who said he'd be interested, depending on the future direction of D* (FOSS, etc) which was uncertain at the time. If this is something that people want to investigate, I can contact him about it again as they have the logistics already re printing, distribution and so on.

Without a foundation though the it would just be a Diaspora, Inc shop (I would still buy :)). So I don't think it's relevant now unless it was something to make it easy for podmins to set their own shop up with ready designs - to support their pod.

We could have a contest to design shirts, key chains, ice cream:] to create the Official Merchandise. Fortunately there are many designers https://framapad.org/diaspora-community-users

The word "Diaspora" and the logo => "Diaspora *" is a trademark of "Diaspora, inc" registered in the U.S. then we need permission from the company if they want to sell in that country.

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=searchss&state=4003:tojlt.1.1

=> Search Term: Diaspora

With the permission of "Diaspora, inc" the money could be allocated to a "treasurer" http://loom.io/ chosen and use the money as voted on http://loom.io/

I suppose one possibility would be to have a click-through system, so the money would be allocated to whichever pod from which the person arrived at the shopping site.

In our Berlin Diaspora-Meetup we printed some shirts with the slogan: "Diaspora: Much worse than facebook - and your friends are not there as well"... you understand the degree of irony?! ;)