Re: Fwd: swag stores

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Justin Kirby <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Justin Kirby <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Eugene Trounev <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Saleel Velankar <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> Thought this had died. Notice that gnome is currently running a contest
>>>> for their new splash tshirt. I am still interested in this. If we cant get
>>>> the store running or whatever lets atleast get 1 new tshirt on
>>>> sale somewhere.
>>
>> Yep, my bad.  Real life...its such a pain ;-)
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>>>> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Eugene Trounev
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>>> Lack of designs? We got an Oxygen team who can flood you with those
>>>>> today.'
>>>>
>>>>  Yes I think we need some help here: here are the current designs:
>>>> http://community.kde.org/Promo/Material/Swag
>>>> I am biased but I really want to see this on a shirt without a ? :
>>>> http://community.kde.org/File:Kdeshirt.png
>>>
>>> Sure. I can amend that for you. Not sure what that ? is there for anyhow.
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>> It wouldn't hurt to have some more designs but we have some things posted
>> already.  As a reminder, here are the two sites:
>> Europe - http://kde-gear.spreadshirt.net
>> North America - http://gearwear.spreadshirt.com
>> I was initially thinking we should do some sort of review of the products
>> but after looking back at them again they're in pretty good shape really.
>>  So we just need to go ahead and announce that they exist on the Dot.  We
>> can always continue to add more designs as they flow in. (please do submit
>> them to the list here or the wiki if you have something)
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> I just finished writing up a draft Dot article to announce this.  Look for
> that once it gets through the approval process.  And please feel free to
> submit new designs to be added.  I think we're out of SVG/EPS slots until we
> sell some things so use PNG for your file format if you propose something
> new for now.  I'm going to clean up the wiki a bit to clarify instructions
> for adding new ideas and also to remove some of the unnecessary clutter.
>

I just reviewed the dot article. It's a great idea to get the idea in
front of people. There are a few comments and questions in the story
that should be addressed before we take this live.

Carl


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>> If someone else wants to take the lead we could setup others for big KDE
>> areas like Brazil, India, etc (I just don't have time to do it myself).
>>>>
>>>> I think spreadshirt has some rather taxing requirements on what can/
>>>> cannot be printed (color/gradient) etc wise.
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>>> Well, I dealt with them before, so I have an idea. Basically you can
>>> print anything, but if you want a vector print (they claim it lasts longer)
>>> then you have to bend to the rules. Personally I think shirts don't live for
>>> more then a year anyhow, so there is no point restraining yourself.
>>> Another words - anything that can't be used in vector form (and I can
>>> tell you what that is), can be used in raster, and then the only thing that
>>> matter is resolution.
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>> Yeah, starting out we had a lot of discussion about this and in the end
>> after buying some shirts to see the quality we concluded that the "vector"
>> ones (3 color max, .EPS format) are not much different than the "pixel" ones
>> (as many colors as you want, PNG/JPG format).
>> So I agree that we shouldn't worry about the constraints.  If you have a
>> really simple design then save it as an EPS file.  If it has lots of colors
>> save it as a really high res PNG file and it will be fine.
>>>
>>> So, do we want to do it? I think there already is something
>>> on spreadshirt. Do you know what user/pass is for that account?
>>
>> Yes, I have this login.  I believe Sebas and Stu do as well.
>>
>>>
>>> I think it could be nice to create a specialized website under KDE.org
>>> domain to make sure we are clear on endorsements. If you think it's a good
>>> idea I'll start on it right away.
>>
>> As in putting this on the KDE.org site somewhere to link to spreadshirt?
>>  Or to have a custom domain name that redirects you to spreadshirt?  (good
>> idea either way imo if you can make it happen)
>> Justin
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>>>> --
>>>> Saleel
>>>>
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