T-shirts for FUDCon Tempe

[Paul Frields]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Robyn Bergeron <robyn.bergeron at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Just what's worked well in the past.

Do you guys want to produce these locally?  If so, with a design in
hand it should be pretty easy for someone to get a quote.  Then figure
that into the budget and we can tell how many we can afford.  Whether
it's 130 or some other number is just down to dollars.

Paul