On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 15:28 +0200, Jos Poortvliet wrote:

A quick note: we are looking for t-shirt designs, which is awesome, but we can't give everyone a t-shirt. We're not asking for size and blindly ordering sizes gets extremely messy...

Just to note: For the Summit, this is why we moved away from t-shirts and went with hats instead. Considering people tend to register at the last minute, ordering appropriate shirt sizes = impossible! The hats looked very cool with a white hat and openSUSE Summit logo. Some people (only a few) were not crazy about wearing hats, and you might want to consider a second option as a registration giveaway. Like have 50% stock of hats and 50% stock of something else and it is first-come-first-serve who gets to pick out what they want.

Just sayin'. We can sell t-shirts, of course, for a reasonable price (and/or recoup some of our costs) and for the team I added a t-shirt size on the volunteer wiki page.

I think this idea is a very good idea, and in fact, I think you don't even need to do it "at-cost." There's enough Geekos that love openSUSE enough that they'll willingly pay a standard price or more for t-shirts (after all, the Conference itself is free!) and make a profit to cover Conference costs or use it for future openSUSE initiatives or donate the profits to a worthy cause. The Raspberry Pie for Pi raffle was positively received at the Summit. And generated some good post-event goodwill, which is a worthy investment in and of itself. Proceeds went to GNOME Foundation to fund future hackfests.

Pls add yourself and your shirt size there if you will help with 'on the ground' stuff at oSC! http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_volunteers

/Jos

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