Martin Steigerwald dijo [Mon, May 01, 2017 at 10:13:58PM +0200]: > > Make it fair-trade and printed by people with disabilities, like > > we did for DC15, and it was somewhere around $8. I'd still buy > > a shirt for $15 or so every now and then if it was a witty new > > design and a cut of the proceeds were donated to Debian. > > I would not have any issue with paying an extra fee for fair-trade, organic T- > Shirt. That most are not at FLOSS events is a reason why I sometimes do not > opt for a T-Shirt at all. > > The very cheap approach of T-Shirt doesn´t go along well with any kind of > idealism. Its very nice to hear in retrospect that the DC15 T-Shirts have > been > fair trade – I didn´t know that.
Note that "fair trade" is a quite squishy notion. Speaking as a friend of the producer, I can assure you that the printing process of our usual Mexican dirt-cheap shirts are as fair-trade as they can be; I cannot assure the details for the fibers to be organic, and I won't claim the shirt maker themselves are overly idealistic, but the printing process itself is not a "sweat shop", but a small family business that struggles to survive _and_ help our movement, in which they believe. Of course, it helps that our country's economy is way cheaper than Europe. I make a quite decent living and earn surely quite a bit over average (several stddevs in fact), but I am still quite close to the USA minimum wage. So, yes, a $3 shirt provides good value to their printers in our reality.
