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

[David Nalley]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Clint Savage <herlo1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Sure, I was merely citing previous examples - I don't know that 'the
artsy' side of this idea won't design something incredibly complex
that is expensive to print :)
Regardless though it's almost assuredly cheaper provided we can get it
to the printer, print in sufficient quantities,etc.