Hi, Since the contentious meeting yesterday, we've all gotten more sleep, more ideas have been discussed, and over $5k of additional sponsorship has come in. Hopefully we can all approach these decisions more calmly now. :) That said, we still don't want to waste money. The T-shirts really need to get ordered ASAP, since Gaby needs 15 days from when we give the advance payment and then shipping takes 3-7 days (closer to 3 given the geography). So, here's my plan, unless there are significant objections:
* We give everyone an attendee shirt (purple since that was one of two colors preferred and I heard objections to canary from some people). * We also give "staff" shirts (black) to everyone who deserves a "you helped us out" shirt of any variety. * The cost of the extra shirts will be partially or fully offset by selling extra shirts for $10 to those who want them. We could collect pre-orders on a wiki page, sell on-site on Debian Day, etc, depending on how much we want to deal with the hassle of on-site merchandise sales. If we restrict the sales to Debian Day only I think the hassle of doing it on-site for the one day is tolerable given the probable benefit. * I already know one of our sponsors wants 10 extra shirts, which at a price of $10 pays for roughly 15 other shirts beyond those 10. I may buy a couple myself. I think that we should order 600 shirts, which includes the 435 which Marga calculated we need plus 165 for sales (including the 12 I just mentioned). I am told by Joerg, Moray, and Steven Gran that in past years where we've sold shirts, we've sold 150-200, and at DebConf6 we had to do several printings and still ran out, so this is realistic. * If any people receiving a "staff" shirt don't want their normal attendee shirt, or if any attendees don't want their normal shirt, they can give it to us unworn to include in the sale at the $10 price, to help our budget. If at least one or two people say they like this idea and nobody objects to it by the time I go to sleep tonight (not before 04:30 UTC / 12:30am NYC time), I will place the order with Gaby, and will pay her tonight or tomorrow depending on feasibility. If nobody gives an opinion either way by 16:30 UTC / 12:30pm NYC tomorrow, I'll go ahead at that point given the urgency. Thanks for caring, everyone, even if it causes tensions! :) - Jimmy Kaplowitz ji...@debconf.org P.S. - If you gave your thoughts on IRC, please also give them in an on-list reply to this email, so that my IRC buffer is not a canonical record of opinions on this. _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
