[Ambassadors] NA Release Party Owners: F10 t-shirt proposal

[Clint Savage]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:24 PM, David Nalley <david at gnsa.us> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, David Nalley wrote:
>>
>>> Clint and I were discussing some of the upcoming release issues and he
>>> came up with the idea of having an F10 release shirt available.
>>>
>>> So I am announcing the proposal and 1) trying to gauge interest in the
>>> proposal. and 2) Solicit input for the proposal.
>>>
>>> Clint, in conjunction with at least one member of the art team will be
>>> working on the artwork.
>>>
>>> Feel free to continue this thread with ideas or just flood Clint on irc :)
>>>
>>> So are you interested in having t-shirts for release events?
>>> If so, how would you have them look?
>>
>> Just sell them on cafepress?
>>
>> --g
>>
>
> We plan on pushing the design to spreadshirt perhaps as part of the
> opening of the NA store sig if we can get some of the other issues
> that Jeffrey is researching worked out.
> The problem is cafepress and spreadshirt make it 3x more expensive
> than if we buy them. So the FADNA shirts which we got through
> spreadshirt cost us $16 each - while the shirts we had produced in
> relative bulk (75) for OLF cost around $6 each. So if the events
> budget has to pay for shirts - 6 is more attractive than 16.
>

David,

The problems with the $6 vs $16 argument is that the $6 deal is only
if we can get them in time to the printer and if the art is ready in
time.  We'll have to give them some lead time (probably at least 2
weeks) and pay a setup charge for the art.  The other issue is that
the $6 is one sided and limited colors.  Though I think we'll only
have one or two colors, it could be hard depending on gradients and
what not.

Keep these things in mind as you discuss this, but both are currently doable.

Cheers,

Clint