[CoLoCo] get on the CoLoCo shirt wiki asap!

[Neal McBurnett]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:59:27PM -0600, Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> Two days before I need to submit something we finally get some discussion.
> Well, better late than never.

There's nothing like a deadline :-)

> I'm still wondering if we want to silk screen anything on the back of a polo
> shirt. I kind of think it will look tacky.

I can go either way

> As for color and such, they will do whatever we want but I think the price
> breaks apply to each style. So if only 5 people order brown then it might be
> more expensive than the 12 people who order black. Same with pocket T vs. polo.
> 
> If anyone is adamant about more choices then feel free to add a column on the
> wiki for your preferences.

But we should clarify - are those votes, or selections?

> Regarding the slogan, a lot of good points made. The question is, are the
> shirts for us to wear when proselytizing Ubuntu or to were when we hang out and
> geek it up? I guess the same shirt could do both but for geeking it up I want
> something more funny.
>
> Maybe we need our professional Ubuntu shirts with stitched logo and a our
> tshirt with silk screened slogan.

Right.  I want both - a nice polo with a classy design, and a tshirt
with lots of slogans, front and back, that will win newbies to our
cause.

Many of the newbies I want to work on don't know what Linux is either
and don't want to.  But they do want to know that there is a cool
thing called Ubuntu (both the African concept and the implications for
computers) which is why I made some of my suggestions (see below).
I agree that an Ubuntu phrase would be better than something about
Open Source, which is a pretty obscure concept for most people.

> Whatever we do someone needs to make a decision soon. If I'm making the
> decision I'm going to go for a polo shirt with logo and no slogan. I'll also
> order a silk screen tshirt if there is interest.

And remember my original post about the shop on the Boulder Pearl
Street Mall (north side, near Broadway?).  He prints slogans for
walk-ins.  So you can put your own slogan on any shirt that you bring
in.

> As for the CoLoCo logo, do we have anything of a higher resolution? It may not
> matter but just in case.

I think it matters, but it depends on what size and placement you're
talking about - a big logo in the middle of the front, or a little one
on the left breast?  I doubt the small print with the domain name will
work well in a small embroidered design.  In that case I'd go for
the standard Ubuntu logo, for which I'm sure there are vector-graphics
files on the web if you follow the links I put on the wiki.

By the way, the wiki page on the shirt is now very confusing.  You
asked originally for a vote, so I put a bunch of choices on there,
with numbered and lettered lists so we'd know that "1" is for white,
while "C" is the multi-line phrase

     Ubuntu:
      People are people through other people
      Free software, free society. Share freely.

But now there are two places on the page where the shirt is described
- above the table and below it.  And the table itself makes it sound
more like an order than a vote.  Confusing....

But as long as the logo, whichever one is chosen, is readable and
isn't an ugly jagged blown up version of some low-resolution file,
I'm game.

Thanks again, Jim!

-Neal

> SFD is up in the air at the moment. I have a request into Carl at System 76 to
> see if he can swing the permit. Since they are sponsoring it will end up in
> their lap sooner or later so I'm checking to see if they can pull it off. If
> not, SFD is probably not going to happen. At least not with an official ( i.e.
> with permit) booth. We can still show in our matching shirts and pass out CDs
> like some techie Hare Krishnas.
> 
> Jim
> 
> On 8/24/07, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu> wrote:
> 
>     I would never do the words "Open Source".  Those words don't mean
>     anything to non-gear-heads, I think.  I would do "Free Software" or
>     "Linux", because I can't think of anyone I know that doesn't get Linux,
>     but does get Open Source.  Linux seems to be more easily understood, and
>     ~everyone~ knows, or can quickly figure out, what Free Software is.
> 
>     Let's use my own dear mum as an example:  My mother would have a hard
>     time understanding the concept of "source", much less "open source", or
>     why that matters.  She has an idea that Linux matters, from me, and that
>     it doesn't suck, from using my computer, but I think she would
>     intuitively grasp "Free Software", and it might be a short leap to
>     explain why it matters.
> 
>     On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 15:14 -0600, Andrew wrote:
>     > I don't know about anyone else, but I would want the quote to be
>     > centered around Open Source, mostly for those who don't know what Linux
>     > is at all.
>     >
>     > here's some things I found/and or came up with:
>     >
>     > something like:
>     >
>     >    >Idealism is for dreamers, what we have is reality! -Open Source
>     >
>     >    >Free of viruses. Free of cost. Free or restrictions. -Open Source
>     >
>     > I will keep looking on Ubuntu Forums or Google for neat quotes.
>     > -Andrew
>     >
> 
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