[CoLoCo] get on the CoLoCo shirt wiki asap!

Sat Aug 25 05:29:35 BST 2007

Well, multiple people have added to the wiki so that accounts for the
confusion. Basically it's to say I'm putting in money for a shirt. Most want
polo, most want black, most don't care what it says. Based on that I'm going
for a coloco shirt with no logo. We can do another sooner or later with a or
many slogans. I'm going for a coloco logo since you can buy an Ubuntu shirt
from Canonical but you can't get a coloco shirt anywhere. I'm thinking
smallish logo on left breast with no url. Underneath it will say Colorado
Loco Ubuntu Team. Notice I'm putting Ubuntu there instead of community since
that is the key word.

According to the shop we don't have to get all the same shirt or color so if
you want something slightly different that seems an option. I'll know more
Monday. I still need a good version of the logo though. The one on the wiki
may be okay for the size we are talking but then again it may not.

If possible I was going to use the Ubuntu font for the text. We'll see if
they can do that. Otherwise it will be something generic.

Keep the ideas coming. If you absolutely can't live with something similar
to what I'm describing then you should remove your name from the wiki. As
soon as I have a price I'm going to start calling for money. I can't afford
to have a bunch of people back out and stick me with a dozen shirts so make
sure you are committed. I'll post the final cost on Monday or Tuesday after
I get the info from the shop.

Thanks,
Jim

On 8/24/07, Neal McBurnett <neal at bcn.boulder.co.us> wrote:
>
> 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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