[GRASS-user] grass promotion

[Martin Wegmann]

On Tuesday 22 August 2006 10:12, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 09:45:08AM +0200, Martin Wegmann wrote:
> > Hello Jachym,
> >
> > a couple of months ago I played around with an internet shop
> > (spreadshirt, cafepress) for GRASS promotion, however due to the
> > uncertain foundation structure in this times (what to do with money) I
> > did not set the shop up properly and abandoned it (perhaps it still
> > works, I have to try).

it is still working and I uploaded the vector graphics (takes one day to be 
verified) - Jachym if you want to login and add some motives/t-shirts etc. 
please contact me offlist. 

> the easiest thing could be to assign the money to the German GRASS
> Association (GAV - Anwender-Vereinigung e.V., http://www.grass-verein.de/)
> which is a registered, tax-exempt charity to support GRASS users.

ok, if thats fine with everybody I will add the GAV bank account for the 
european (EURO zone) shop. It does not mean that the shop if online and 
people can buy stuff, this can be decided later on.  

> > I would highly appreciate a GRASS promotion shop and perhaps it would be
> > a good idea to join the cafepress/OSGeo discussion on the VisCom ML.
>
> OSGeo is also going cafepress now:
>  http://www.cafepress.com/OSGeo

we could set up a http://www.cafepress.com/GRASS for North-America because you 
have to pay shipping costs if you live in Europe or elsewhere.

> > Nevertheless it has to be clarified who is in charge of the money (I saw
> > a few mails about committee election or so but did not go deeper into it,
> > if these persons are eligible to handle the money, we could go forward.)
>
> For the time being it could be GAV Germany or individual people
> or maybe OSGeo (the 501(c)(3) status is still pending since it is
> a lot of paperword).

let me know if GAV is fine - anyway we can change it afterwards. 

Martin

>
> > Martin
> >
> > P.S.: for coloured background t-shirts we would need vector graphics
>
> ... which can be downloaded from
> http://grass.itc.it/download/logograms.php
>
> Markus
>
> > On Tuesday 22 August 2006 08:28, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > some of us would like a t-shirt with GRASS logo. Anybody can make
> > > his/her own label and let it print.
> > >
> > > I think, there should be kind of template, which could be
> > > downloaded by anybody, who would like to have such kind of t-shirt.
> > >
> > > I have prepared such template for those, who would like something
> > > unified.
> > >
> > > http://les-ejk.cz/tmp/grass-tshirt-back.png
> > > http://les-ejk.cz/tmp/grass-tshirt-back.svg
> > > http://les-ejk.cz/tmp/grass-tshirt-front.png
> > > http://les-ejk.cz/tmp/grass-tshirt-front.svg
> > >
> > > There is one mm thick wite line around all lines, so that one could
> > > print it on any type of color.
> > >
> > > Looking forward to your comments/improvements (i'm no graphic
> > > designer).
> > >
> > > Jachym
> >
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Martin Wegmann

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German Remote Sensing Data Center
@
Dept.of Geography
Remote Sensing and Biodiversity Unit
&&
Dept. of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology
University of Wuerzburg
Am Hubland
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