Hi everyone,
|| On Wed, 23 May 2001 03:08:26 +0200 || Peter Gerwinski peter@gerwinski.de wrote:
pg> * T-shirts. On the other side can be a text "This T-shirt is a pg> free T-shirt. You can copy it and/or modify it under the terms pg> of the GNU General Public License ...".
I think a good start would be a t-shirt with the logo on the front (small, printed in upper left quarter) and Anjas motive on the back.
pg> Other ideas? Special wishes for the T-shirts? Anyone who pg> prefers polo shirts?
We might consider doing some polo shirts. But t-shirts should probably be our first priority.
pg> * Key chains with coins (Euro-sized) which can be used in pg> supermarked trolleys and such. They will cost about as much as pg> the T-shirts, but they are of a high quality - engraved metal, pg> not printed plastic - see pg> http://adele.gerwinski.de/~peter/coin-20010522/ .
Is there a demand for this? How many peoople would like to have such an item?
pg> * Pins. These can display the famous "A gnu head" graphics (or pg> something else?) and serve as pendants of the ubiquitous Tux pg> Pins.
Pins are a great idea.
I have always considered doing them for the "Brave GNU World" logo, because it is almost perfect for it. I'd be happy to see the FSF Europe raise funds with them. .-)
Even though it helps that Peter will finance the first investment needed to get things started, we really need to find a good way to deal with this on a resonably big scale, I think.
The FSF Europe needs to maintain a permanent supply of all items to be able to supply them for tradeshows and conferences... the central point for this will be the office in Essen.
Also we should make it easier for people to simply order small quantities of the FSF(E) merchandise. A perfect solution would be an online form where people simply enter what they want and have it delivered by mail.
Of course this requires dealing with the money transfers and packaging.
So there are essentially two problems that need to be solved:
a) We need a place that can print reasonably large quantities of t-shirts with a good quality (I think it is important they are as good as the U.S. ones) and deliver them to Essen. For this we should probably start gathering possibilities... I know Emma has already offered helping with this. Are there others who have good contacts to places doing such things?
b) We need to set up a good way to make it easy for people to get the things outside of tradeshows. Is there anyone here who has experience with such things and/or would be able to help?
Input on these matters would be greatly appreciated.
Regards, Georg