T-shirts for FUDCon Tempe

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 09:19:09AM -0400, Pascal Calarco wrote:
>   On 10/04/2010 04:09 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 04:08:42PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> >> For FUDCon Tempe, we need:
> >>
> >> (1) Someone to either make, or work with the Design team to have made,
> >> a design for the shirt
> >>
> >> (2) Someone to get all the vendor stuff sorted out so someone from Red
> >> Hat can call, give credit card info, and the shirts will be made and
> >> sent somewhere appropriate for the event.
> >>
> >> Do I hear any takers?
> > Nobody?  Bueller?
> >
> >
> Hi Paul and FUDCon team --
> 
> Since this is still a need for us, I'm willing to coordinate the design 
> and procurement of the FUDCon Tempe shirts.  Its fairly similar to work 
> I've done in the past getting Fedora Ambassadors polos ordered.  Still, 
> I will need help with various aspects of this, and so have the following 
> questions:
> 
> 1) I'm no design person, and so will need to work with the Design team 
> to both have them envision the design and pull it off.  Who was the 
> point person on the Design team for last year's FUDCon Toronto?  Should 
> I approach that person directly, or open a new Design TRAC ticket and 
> have the team decision who is best to work on this?  Or are these FUDCon 
> tickets assigned to the Design team?

Generally the Design team favors the ticket approach, since they have
quite a few designers involved now.  When you open the ticket, you
might want to propose some ideas or motifs to try for the shirt.

> 2) From Robyn's email to the list on 9/27[1], we have a local shop to 
> possibly source this from[2].  We'll start from here and compare costs 
> for these to last year's FUDCon as a reasonable measure.  Where do I 
> find out how much per unit costs were for FUDCon Toronto?  Is that 
> amount the same ballpark we are budgeted for this year? I will pull off 
> the wiki what sizes and numbers we're looking for.  Do we order shirts 
> for others who are not represented on the FUDCon pre-registrants list?

Generally we order about 150 or so shirts.  The prices I've found from
various places are well under $10 a shirt, more like $8 in a lot of
cases.  As long as the cost is somewhere under $2K we should be fine.

I try to order a couple extras for specific people who help us make
FUDCon happen inside Red Hat but don't always get to attend -- people
on Max Spevack's team, and a few of my managers and executives.  Never
hurts to grease a wheel or two!

We guarantee shirts to the first 130 pre-registrants.  So I pull out
the small number for those extra folks, we print badges that tell us
(at the registration table) what size the pre-registrant signed up for
so they get theirs, and then whatever's left toward the middle of the
last day, people can fight over. ;-)

Pascal, it's awesome that you're helping with this; thank you so much!

> [1] 
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fudcon-planning/2010-September/001240.html
> [2] http://www.brandxstore.com/


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