[FAmSCo] Ideas needed - Issue with Fedora branded items - no where to get them even for money?

[Clint Savage]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Jiri Eischmann <jeischma at redhat.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Christoph Wickert" <christoph.wickert at gmail.com>
>> To: famsco at lists.fedoraproject.org
>> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 8:38:27 PM
>> Subject: Re: [FAmSCo] Ideas needed - Issue with Fedora branded items - no where to get them even for money?
>>
>> Am Montag, den 11.02.2013, 19:21 +0100 schrieb Buddhike Kurera:
>> >
>> > The Problem : Fedora fans would like to get Fedora branded stuff
>> > (expensive stuff) for an example polo t-shirts, jackets, bags and
>> > so
>> > on.
>> >
>> > Benefit : Enabling such will help us to spread the Fedora brand and
>> > make our fans happy.
>> >
>> > Option 1 : Produce such branded items and give them free.
>>
>> At the moment, this is the only option we have. However giving away
>> expensive stuff for free will hurt our budget. Unless we suddenly get
>> way more money then in the past, we can only purchase small
>> quantities.
>> This will not really help spreading Fedora as a brand. We would
>> probably
>> prefer our contributors, so we still don't have an offer for our
>> fans.
>
> This doesn't fly. We produced quite a lot of baseball caps and mugs and what I brought to FOSDEM was not enough for our contributors, not mentioning other people. And if you start giving free stuff away you'll suddenly have several hundred people at your booth asking for the free stuff. Price is also a great regulator.

I don't know that this is a bad thing. I mean, if you really want to
get Fedora out there, free stuff is not a bad thing. Just limit what
you give away each day and it works well to promote and encourage
regulation.

Cheers,

herlo