[OH-Publicity] Items for December newsletter

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Karen Rustad wrote:

> I'm working on a new OpenHatch t-shirt for donors, so we will probably 
> want to include that in this update!
>
> The tricky part right now is choosing a t-shirt color--I was thinking 
> we'd want something other than blue to differentiate this shirt from the 
> previous one, but 1.) finding available shirt colors close to either the 
> OH green or the OH orange has been tricky and 2.) Asheesh's feedback was 
> that he wasn't particularly fond of either color as a shirt anyway.

I finished editing the draft: http://htmlpad.org/oh-newsletter-201212/

It doesn't mention the shirt yet, but we could add it if finish picking 
soon!

As for the color... I think I'd go with the charcoal option: Design 
http://lists.openhatch.org/pipermail/publicity/attachments/20121206/74c68612/attachment-0009.png 
. Swatch for the color: 
http://www.americanapparel.net/wholesaleresources/colors.asp (search for 
"charcoal"). But I find color choices tiring.

But we don't necessarily have to make that a show-stopper for this update; 
we could just do a separate T-shirt note right after the December 
newsletter. I guess it does mean that it wouldn't, by default, go out to 
"announce", but we could decide to send a separate fundraising request to 
the "announce" list in a week, say.

My vote would be, ship the December newsletter by mid-Saturday at the 
latest, and if T-shirt stuff is decided by then, then great; otherwise, 
get a handle on T-shirt stuff after the newsletter post goes out.

-- Asheesh.