On 2013-07-03 16:24, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:
last year t-shirt
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email from moray (19.6.2012)
Attendee
Size Order
XS 10
S 30
M 65
L 80 (including ones for sponsors)
XL 40
XXL 25
Similar information for DebConf11 is in
https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf11/T-Shirts#Decisions
When choosing numbers for printing, the main thing is to increase the
numbers for the extreme sizes proportionally more than ones in the
middle (since the true distribution of human sizes is somewhat wider
than the distribution of our t-shirt sizes), and to increase the numbers
for unpopular-in-penta sizes proportionally more than for the most
popular, in case they turn out to be more popular when people see the
real sizes of the shirts. In both cases the *absolute* number added to
the penta requests may be lower than for the most popular sizes. Due to
the smaller overall numbers for women's shirts, the proportional
increase will be higher there, but again with fairly low absolute
numbers added.
Last year, although I had done that, we ran out of the smallest sizes
quite quickly (= I hadn't increased those enough). That was partly due
to demand from them from additional female local volunteers, but also
from male attendees who found that the S or M shirts were bigger than
they expected and wanted to switch to XS or S.
Of course, this could all be more efficient if we determined in advance
what shirts we will use and their true sizes, before people chose their
type, but in practice what what each size name means in a particular
year is something of a lottery.... Fortunately attendees are happy to
take any spare shirts (within reason), and we have also had success with
selling surplus ones towards the end of the conference.
--
Moray
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