Mercurial shirts

Manuel Jacob me at manueljacob.de
Mon Mar 9 11:07:45 UTC 2020


On 2020-03-09 09:52, Raphaël Gomès wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> What do you think about printing some amount of Mercurial shirts to
> distribute at sprints and events for contributors and sympathizers?
> The 5.4 sprint is jeopardized at best, but this would be useful for
> later events. I personally had no Mercurial shirt/hoodie to show up in
> at FOSDEM for example.
> 
> Does the project have some kind of allocated funding for this kind of 
> things?

Most projects seem to use t-shirt sales as a source of income rather 
than subsidizing them.

On the other hand, rewarding contributors is nice and higher visibility 
is important.

Maybe it’s a good idea to sell the t-shirts at different prices: e.g. 
"subsidized", "normal" and "supporter".

> We've had a few shirts made to promote Heptapod, and we've been happy
> with the results, maybe we (read: Octobus) can take care of the
> logistics and technical aspects?
> 
> Thanks,
> Raphaël



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