Re: GNOME Free Agent T-shirt Proposal

[Brian Cameron <brian cameron oracle com>]

Stormy:

> I like it. I could even imagine you could use that concept with other
> organizations too.

+1.  It's nice to make t-shirts to highlight our positive relationships
with various organizations.

> What's the plan for distributing it?

I'd like to get this done before GUADEC so that the tshirt could be made
available for sale at the event.  I would like to give tshirts away to
GNOME volunteers who are not employed to work on GNOME, and sell it to
those GNOME folks who have a job working on GNOME.  This would be a nice
reward for GNOME volunteers, and those with jobs can subsidize the
costs.  So I think the t-shirt will be a little expensive, with the
understanding that the proceeds are going to promote a good cause (e.g.
promoting GNOME volunteers who dedicate their time & energy to GNOME
without having a job providing income for doing the work).

Brian


> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Brian Cameron <brian cameron oracle com
> <mailto:brian cameron oracle com>> wrote:
>
>
>     GNOME Marketing Team:
>
>     On April 6th, I proposed a "GNOME Free Agent" t-shirt which would
>     highlight the humanitarian aspects of being a GNOME volunteer.
>
>     I have been working with Mike (Dongyun) Lee and Diki Niwatori to
>     put together the attached t-shirt mock-up.  After discussion, we
>     decided to make the image mono-color.  While a bit less exciting
>     than the full-color version, it is less busy and will be easier
>     and less expensive to print.
>
>     Does this look good to people?  Does anyone have any comments
>     about the design or how to improve things further?
>
>     Thoughts?
>
>     Brian
>
>
>
>     On 04/06/10 15:08, Brian Cameron wrote:
>
>
>         GNOME Marketing Team
>
>         Over the past several months, I have been trading emails with
>         the OLPC
>         and SugarLabs folks about an opportunity to create a t-shirt to
>         promote that GNOME free software benefits humanitarian projects like
>         OLPC and Sugar Labs, and to provide a nice reward for volunteers
>         within
>         the GNOME community. Based on my rough textual design ideas I have
>         gotten permission from both OLPC and SugarLabs to go ahead with
>         using
>         their logos in this way, though they obviously want to review a
>         final
>         mock-up of what the t-shirt will look like before giving a formal
>         go-ahead.
>
>         So, I have been thinking of creating a "GNOME Free Agent" t-shirt. I
>         like this name since "Free Agent" is a fun play on words and can be
>         interpreted in different ways including being an independent GNOME
>         volunteer.
>
>         Dongyun Lee (http://dongyunlee.com/) does artwork for OLPC and has
>         volunteered to provide artwork to use on the t-shirt for no charge
>         (though he does want 2 free t-shirts for himself and his wife which
>         seems reasonable). Rather than a photograph of children using OLPC
>         units (photographs are hard to make look nice on tshirts), he
>         suggested
>         using some of his OLPC line art. For example, you can see some
>         work he
>         did for OLPC here:
>
>         http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=page&page=learners
>         <http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=page&page=learners>
>
>         Both Dongyun and myself think this particular image would work
>         nicely
>         on a t-shirt:
>
>         http://dongyunlee.com/imgsrc/il/il24_11.jpg
>
>         Dongyun has volunteered to create some custom artwork for this
>         t-shirt
>         if we can provide direction. Some people I have shown this image to
>         think it is a bit too busy, so perhaps something a bit toned
>         down would
>         be better. Thoughts?
>
>         With the photo would appear the following text:
>
>         [GNOME Logo] Free Software - Powering [OLPC logo] & [Sugar Labs
>         logo]
>
>         Perhaps some additional text under the photograph or under the logo
>         would be nice like "Helping previously marginalized children
>         throughout
>         the developing world learn, achieve and begin to transform their
>         communities"
>
>         I was thinking that we could make two versions of the t-shirt. One
>         version to sell for $20 that has nothing on the back. A second
>         version
>         will have the following text on the back and would be given away for
>         no-charge to volunteers who work on GNOME but do not work for a
>         company
>         that works on GNOME. People who work on GNOME for a company
>         would pay
>         $25 for the second version of the tshirt with this text on the back:
>
>         Free Agent
>         GNOME Free Software Volunteer
>
>         I am hoping that people on the marketing-list can help with:
>
>         1) What do people think of this proposal? Any ideas on how to
>         further
>         improve it?
>         2) As I mention above, Dongyun is agreeable to creating an image
>         that
>         is more focused on the relationship between GNOME, SugarLabs, and
>         OLPC. Any ideas or direction that we could give to Dongyun would
>         be helpful.
>         3) Perhaps the proposed image above is a bit too busy. Do people
>         have
>         suggestions on whether the image created for this t-shirt should be
>         changed? Should less colors be used for an image intended for a
>         t-shirt, for example?
>         4) I need someone with graphic design skills to put together a mock
>         up image of the t-shirt to help facilitate moving this forward.
>         Can anyone help?
>
>         Thanks,
>
>         Brian
>
>
>
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