T-shirts for FUDCon Tempe

[Robyn Bergeron]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. ;-)

Is this 130 number some sort of fixed number? Just what has worked in the past?


>
> 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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