The Fedora Store SIG [1] meeting was canceled today due to lack of attendance. As I mentioned on IRC though for anyone that came by later, I was going to post a brief summary of where we are at now.
I ordered a sample shirt from spreadshirt.com earlier this week. I ordered it in similar style to the one I ordered from cafepress.com a few weeks ago and can compare it to some Fedora shirts I have that were made by a genuine screen printer. I am hoping it arrives by the end of this week, early next week.
If the quality of that shirt is good I am inclined to recommend that we go with spreadshirt.com for the 3rd party vendor that we use for the user store front. Our fellow Ambassadors in France use them for their store and have been satisfied with the results. Once the vendor decision has been made I anticipate the Store moving forward at a more rapid place as nearly all of the pieces will have fallen into place.
We do have one other major open action item open at this point and that is a mockup of what store.fedoraproject.org might look like. We still need someone to help us out with a mockup of this page. We have listed some general requirements [2] of the page in the wiki and I am happy to answer any questions regarding that page. I see we have a few art team members on the participants list for the Store SIG - any volunteers?
I updated the meeting page [3] for next week. Some people have mentioned that the time is not good for them. I am open to moving the time of the meeting if a few people want to throw out a few alternate times. Otherwise, we will meet again next week in the #fedora-mktg channel on Wednesday at 18:00 UTC.
Thanks! Jeffrey
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Store [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Store/GeneralRequirements [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Store/Meetings
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Jeffrey Tadlock wrote:
I ordered a sample shirt from spreadshirt.com earlier this week. I ordered it in similar style to the one I ordered from cafepress.com a few weeks ago and can compare it to some Fedora shirts I have that were made by a genuine screen printer. I am hoping it arrives by the end of this week, early next week.
If the quality of that shirt is good I am inclined to recommend that we go with spreadshirt.com for the 3rd party vendor that we use for the user store front. Our fellow Ambassadors in France use them for their store and have been satisfied with the results. Once the vendor decision has been made I anticipate the Store moving forward at a more rapid place as nearly all of the pieces will have fallen into place.
Sounds good to me.
We do have one other major open action item open at this point and that is a mockup of what store.fedoraproject.org might look like. We still need someone to help us out with a mockup of this page. We have listed some general requirements [2] of the page in the wiki and I am happy to answer any questions regarding that page. I see we have a few art team members on the participants list for the Store SIG - any volunteers?
I can put something together, hopefully during this week or next.
I updated the meeting page [3] for next week. Some people have mentioned that the time is not good for them. I am open to moving the time of the meeting if a few people want to throw out a few alternate times. Otherwise, we will meet again next week in the #fedora-mktg channel on Wednesday at 18:00 UTC.
Weekdays at about 21:00 UTC work best for me, since I have school until 14:30 Central Time (America/Chicago).
-- ian
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Ian Weller wrote:
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Jeffrey Tadlock wrote:
We do have one other major open action item open at this point and that is a mockup of what store.fedoraproject.org might look like. We still need someone to help us out with a mockup of this page. We have listed some general requirements [2] of the page in the wiki and I am happy to answer any questions regarding that page. I see we have a few art team members on the participants list for the Store SIG - any volunteers?
I can put something together, hopefully during this week or next.
Turns out the time I thought I had I don't have, so I don't think I'll be able to come up with a mockup of the page.
I presume it would look mostly like the fedoraproject.org page... same template...
-- ian
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Ian Weller ianweller@gmail.com wrote:
Turns out the time I thought I had I don't have, so I don't think I'll be able to come up with a mockup of the page.
No worries. Thanks for letting us know.
I presume it would look mostly like the fedoraproject.org page... same template...
Yes, I would expect the look and feel to pretty much "plug-in" to the existing look and feel. The initial store is relatively simple to start with - more of a global landing page that directs people to the appropriate place. I expect if the initial launch of the store is successful over time then the complexity might increase - but in its first iteration we are striving for simple.
Thanks! Jeffrey
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