[FOSS4G-Oceania] T-shirt supplier and sizes

[adam steer]

My feeling is that SSSI have had 9 months to raise this - it’s a touch late
in the game.

We had a broad agreement around no logos at all on t-shirts. People are
paying for the t-shirts, I agree with the assertion that in that case no
logos is a good thing. Come to think of it, in the last two F4Gs there has
been one logo on a sleeve - from a sponsor who paid, well, more in one hit
than all our current sponsors combined ($USD30 000 -
http://2017.foss4g.org/sponsor/).

Yes, sponsors and SSSI and unimelb make a lot of other things possible.
They all have opportunities to take value as they see fit.

In the case of SSSI, they will get a financial return on their investment
of time.

For unimelb, profile raising. And potential future profit in the form of
students.

For other sponsors - profile raising, an opportunity to show their stuff.

>From my own perspective, my small company has provided far more than a
platinum sponsorship in my time to organise this conference. What’s the
return? we have no idea. Maybe none. Maybe some. We definitely draw on the
open source community so we feel obliged to give back and maybe this is our
‘open source licensing fee’. I’d like to remind us all that this is *not* a
standard industry conference with fixed ROI expectations.

Finally, we never offered partners or sponsors logo placement on t shirts
from the outset. I’d contend that if anyone wants to chip in $US30k, we can
reconsider.

To wrap up, -1 for any logos on t-shirts, subject to the $USD30k rule.

We can find many other ways to generate value for partners and sponsors.

Cheers

Adam






On 3 August 2018 at 14:31, Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think we either do just our logo on the front, or our logo on the front
> and platinum sponsors and partners on the back.
>
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 at 14:26 Trisha Moriarty <moriar1y at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> A suggestion for the shirts, as the conference could not have be held
>> with our the two partners, providing venue and financial backing, could
>> they be listed as partners on the sleeve or  under the FOSS4G logo?  Text
>> only not the logos, neither are commercial companies so that fits with the
>> no billboard approach.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 9:43 AM adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> My only concern about non-logos is that we’ve promised platinum sponsors
>>> a logo placement on something …prominent - and ideally something we give
>>> out to all attendees.
>>>
>>> I guess that *isn’t* a t'shirt, since we don’t give them to everyone :D
>>>
>>> I really *like* the no logo plan, with the caveat that we’ve done some
>>> expectation setting in terms of sponsor exposure and need to make good.
>>> Maybe it’s time to raise the conference memento discussion from the dead.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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