[OH-Publicity] OpenHatch t-shirts!

[Karen Rustad]

Here's the plan for t-shirts:

0.) Final design, unless there's something horribly wrong:
https://openhatch.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/oh-t-shirt-final-design.png

1.) Tomorrow morning, assuming that the OH Wordpress install stops
being broken, I post a blog post announcing t-shirt pre-orders. Along
with the announcement post we have a form
(https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEUxYWdHcEJxTGNVSDNTdnJmQ1paZHc6MQ#gid=0)
to see who's interested in a shirt and collect their name, email,
sizing info, etc. (They're not "real" pre-orders since we're not yet
taking people's money, since the PayPal account is still a blocker,
but oh well.)

2.) A week later (February 28), based on the responses we've gotten
(plus some extra shirts for giveaways, etc.) we send in an order to
Social Imprints. Their price quote was $17.50 a shirt for 30 shirts,
or $525; so far I've been telling people to expect $20 a shirt, to
account for shipping costs or other risks, and because it's a nice
round number. I'm budgeting $600 for the operation, unless we get some
massive number of pre-orders.

3.) After Social Imprints confirms our order, we email our pre-order
people and link them to a PayPal page where they can formally order
and pay for their shirts. (Assuming our PayPal account is up and
running by then.)

We should receive the printed shirts before PyCon, where we can
distribute them to probably a goodly number of the people who will be
interested in them! The rest of the distribution (especially non-Bay
area, non-Boston) will be handled post-PyCon.

Sound good?

-- Karen

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Asheesh Laroia <lists at asheesh.org> wrote:
>
> Excerpts from Karen Rustad's message of Sat Jan 28 16:20:25 -0500 2012:
> > Quick update--
> >
> > So far, it looks like printing two sides of a shirt (even with only a small
> > design on the back) is far more expensive than printing just one, so I made
> > two one-sided versions of the design:
> > http://littlegreenriver.com/stuffs/oh-shirts/oh-t-shirt-oneside.png
> > http://littlegreenriver.com/stuffs/oh-shirts/oh-t-shirt-oneside-hatch.png
>
> I'm really glad that we might get shirts! I'm concerned about price
> (concerned, not worried) -- and I don't want us to end up in a
> situation where we have a bunch of T-shirts that someone has hand-created
> that we've pre-paid for sitting around. So I'm hoping that there's some
> fairly elastic way we can create them that also yields good results.
>
> I prefer the clarity of the no-hatch version.
>
> I like the oranges. I think the tree's leaves could be touched up a bit
> on the most right-hand part of it.
>
> Again, these look great! Thanks for your work on them, Karen! What's next
> to make them real (and what are your price estimates looking like)?
>
> -- Asheesh.
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