Re: Stickers and Tshirts - 3DPrintingCampWI

[Pete Prodoehl]

Bob,

For the stickers I can get the art to whoever needs it tomorrow... though it's not exactly a high resolution file, so hopefully the stickers will be small(ish.)

As for the shirts, it sounds like your asking for a black shirt with white ink. One color print is good and should be faster, easier, cheaper... though your description of a "white background" has confused me a bit.

As for the registering for shirts, can whoever controls the Sector67 PayPal account add a product and provide us with a "Buy Now" button? I'd think that would be the simplest way to do it. Maybe even one button per shirt size, then people just click the right one ("Buy XL T-shirt") and PayPal knows the size, the cost, and the person buying one provides all their info at checkout.

Good news on Google! More cash at this point would be helpful.

Pete

On Jul 17, 2012, at 8:09 PM, Bob Waldron wrote:

So, due to a combination of unexpected out-of-state job, procrastination and my lack of web development skills, preparations for the 3D printing unconference are behind where they should be. We need to address two items if we're going to have them in time for Saturday's camp -- stickers and tshirts.

1.)  Stickers  -- It appears we have enough money to pay for making vinyl stickers for the backs of laptops or ??, although I have no idea what they cost. I would say we should make 250 of them (two per person for 125 people) or more if it doesn't cost too much. Joe or Chris, is that something the Sector member would still want to print, or what's your recommendation? Tim Bertram said if we don't have anyone else to do that, he could probably work something out regarding stickers.

Because I put off asking for input on the logo/graphic, I didn't get very many responses to last night's email. We had 5 votes for C, the state outline with a 3D printer imposed on it, 3 for the owl extruder and 2 for the website logo. I like the owl extruder best, and I think we'd need to use that if we make tshirts, but if we can make stickers using graphic C, that's what the popular vote chose. Pete has the graphic originals for the state outline with 3D printer imposed, and Mike Massie has the Owl Extruder graphic originals.

2.) Tshirts  --  I can't set up a page on the website with a Pay Pal link and a form to let people choose what size shirt they want, but if one of you guys tell me you can do that or can get someone else to do that tomorrow, and if letting people register their size and pay by 7 AM on Thursday gives the Sector printer guy time to print them on Thursday or Friday, I'll be happy to send out an email to all registered unconference participants. So if any of you are willing to take that on or commit to having one of your friends do that tonight or tomorrow, I'll send out an email tonight. Just let me know.

I'd like to have a shirt from the event, and I'd certainly pay $10 for one. I'm a chemical engineer, not a designer, so my geek fashion sense is zero, but I'd take a black shirt printed with a black line-art owl on a white background. Like I said above, the owl is probably the simplest to print, although I could be way off on that. So if someone is going to step up to get the webpage done for shirt ordering, then someone else needs to step up to work with the Sector tshirt printing guy to coordinate things.

Let me know if I should sent out a 'tshirt email' tonight, or should get one ready to send out in the morning.

I'll probably be working 11 or 12 hours tomorrow, so I won't have a lot of time during the day to work on unconference stuff.

To close on a possibly-good note, Jim Laudon from the Madison Google office is considering sponsoring the event. He asked about the cost of a tent because that's what I originally asked him to sponsor. But I explained that it had been decided to make do without a tent and asked if he'd consider sponsoring subs for lunch or pizza for supper and gave him ballpark costs for those two options. Waiting to hear back.

Also, Matt from MakerBot was packing up a box of goodies, including filament, to send to Sector, and he said MakerBot definitely wants to participate in the event next year.

Bob

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From: Bob Waldron <bwal...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:31 PM
Subject: Logo for 3DPrintingCampWI
To:

We want to print off some vinyl stickers to hand out on Saturday. And if someone can work with Pete Prodoehl to put up a webpage on Tuesday for people to select a shirt size and pay $10 via Pay Pal by Wednesday evening, unconference participants could order a 3DPrintingCampWI shirt with the logo.

A. The original website graphic (which will have "WI" added after "Camp")

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B. The 'Extruder Owl' printing a 3D Wisconsin

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C. 3D Printer Overlaid On State Outline

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Send me an email telling me which of the 3 graphics you prefer for the unconference stickers (and for a shirt graphic if we get a web page up and have time to print them -- shirts would only be one or two color).

Thanks,

Bob

[Bob Waldron]

yeah, if we do shirts, whoever prints them will know the best way to make the owl graphic on a black tshirt. if the shirt can't be black, then whatever works...

Chris should be able to tell you what you need for any Pay Pal stuff.

Bob

[Pete Prodoehl]

I just checked the C option (3D Printer Overlaid On State Outline) file, and it's only 390x390 pixels... we could *maybe* get a 2.5x2.5" sticker out of that. Unless someone can find a higher resolution file for that 3D printing badge artwork. (Adafruit?)


Pete


On 7/18/12 8:58 AM, Joe Kerman wrote:

I cc'ed adam on this reply, to see if he will have time to make the shirts and/or stickers by saturday.

Adam, if you have time to pull this off, let us know what format you need the artwork in. And if we need to run and find some shirts locally for you.

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Bob Waldron <bwal...@gmail.com> wrote:

So, due to a combination of unexpected out-of-state job, procrastination and my lack of web development skills, preparations for the 3D printing unconference are behind where they should be. We need to address two items if we're going to have them in time for Saturday's camp -- stickers and tshirts.

1.)  Stickers  -- It appears we have enough money to pay for making vinyl stickers for the backs of laptops or ??, although I have no idea what they cost. I would say we should make 250 of them (two per person for 125 people) or more if it doesn't cost too much. Joe or Chris, is that something the Sector member would still want to print, or what's your recommendation? Tim Bertram said if we don't have anyone else to do that, he could probably work something out regarding stickers.

Because I put off asking for input on the logo/graphic, I didn't get very many responses to last night's email. We had 5 votes for C, the state outline with a 3D printer imposed on it, 3 for the owl extruder and 2 for the website logo. I like the owl extruder best, and I think we'd need to use that if we make tshirts, but if we can make stickers using graphic C, that's what the popular vote chose. Pete has the graphic originals for the state outline with 3D printer imposed, and Mike Massie has the Owl Extruder graphic originals.

2.) Tshirts  --  I can't set up a page on the website with a Pay Pal link and a form to let people choose what size shirt they want, but if one of you guys tell me you can do that or can get someone else to do that tomorrow, and if letting people register their size and pay by 7 AM on Thursday gives the Sector printer guy time to print them on Thursday or Friday, I'll be happy to send out an email to all registered unconference participants. So if any of you are willing to take that on or commit to having one of your friends do that tonight or tomorrow, I'll send out an email tonight. Just let me know.

I'd like to have a shirt from the event, and I'd certainly pay $10 for one. I'm a chemical engineer, not a designer, so my geek fashion sense is zero, but I'd take a black shirt printed with a black line-art owl on a white background. Like I said above, the owl is probably the simplest to print, although I could be way off on that. So if someone is going to step up to get the webpage done for shirt ordering, then someone else needs to step up to work with the Sector tshirt printing guy to coordinate things.

Let me know if I should sent out a 'tshirt email' tonight, or should get one ready to send out in the morning.

I'll probably be working 11 or 12 hours tomorrow, so I won't have a lot of time during the day to work on unconference stuff.

To close on a possibly-good note, Jim Laudon from the Madison Google office is considering sponsoring the event. He asked about the cost of a tent because that's what I originally asked him to sponsor. But I explained that it had been decided to make do without a tent and asked if he'd consider sponsoring subs for lunch or pizza for supper and gave him ballpark costs for those two options. Waiting to hear back.

Also, Matt from MakerBot was packing up a box of goodies, including filament, to send to Sector, and he said MakerBot definitely wants to participate in the event next year.

Bob

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bob Waldron <bwal...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:31 PM
Subject: Logo for 3DPrintingCampWI
To:

We want to print off some vinyl stickers to hand out on Saturday. And if someone can work with Pete Prodoehl to put up a webpage on Tuesday for people to select a shirt size and pay $10 via Pay Pal by Wednesday evening, unconference participants could order a 3DPrintingCampWI shirt with the logo.

A. The original website graphic (which will have "WI" added after "Camp")

B. The 'Extruder Owl' printing a 3D Wisconsin

C. 3D Printer Overlaid On State Outline

Send me an email telling me which of the 3 graphics you prefer for the unconference stickers (and for a shirt graphic if we get a web page up and have time to print them -- shirts would only be one or two color).

Thanks,

Bob

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[Tim Bertram]

I think a 2" by 2" would fairly well too.

[Bob Waldron]

Well, I guess the shirts aren't going to work out since no one set up a way for people to specify shirt size and pay for them. Next year, I guess...

Re: stickers, since I haven't heard anything from Joe or Chris about Sector or any of the Sector members making them, can you print some up, Tim, sort of the same type of stickers you did for DHMN? We've got money, so let us know how much the materials cost. And you can get the graphic from Pete if you don't already have what you need for that.

The Madison Google office came through with $600 today, so we should be able to figure out something over the next two days regarding food. If we only have 60 or 70 people around at lunch time and supper time, we could almost afford to cover both meals with the $1000+ we've gotten from sponsors, but probably couldn't do both if we have 100+ show up at meal times. I'll write something up tomorrow (Thursday) listing all the expenses and donations I'm aware of, and we can work out a plan for how to best use the sponsors' donations.

Speaking of donations, it sounds like we'll have some goodies and swag to give to the unconference participants. Brian, figuring out an equitable and fun way to do that was something you were going to think about, so maybe you can have a plan for doling that stuff out. Probably won't know for sure until Saturday morning what all we're getting, but if we have a few ideas on that, we can at least have a starting point.

Let me know if questions or suggestions about things I didn't cover above.

Bob

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Adam Sage Godding <ad...@jabberwockysuperfly.com> wrote:

Hello,

Given the timeframe I would only be able to do some t-shirts for you guys. If you've got the artwork in a vector format that would be ideal. As far as shirts go I can get black gildan 2000 blanks for about $3.50/ea. If that sounds good I would need to know numbers and size breakdown by friday morning.

Anyway if you can get back to me with some numbers and what not I can give you guys a quote and we can get rolling on this project.

Cheers,

Adam Godding
(608) 609 - 9321

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[Joe Kerman]

Did you still want to have a few shirts printed up to sell at the event, and for our own use?  A few larges and mediums may be better than nothing, if its worth the gamble on expenses.

I cant apologize enough for my lack of availability the last few weeks :(

I will be on-site at sector67 to prep and clean up the shop Thursday afternoon, and all day friday

[Pete Prodoehl]

On Jul 18, 2012, at 5:26 PM, Bob Waldron wrote:

Well, I guess the shirts aren't going to work out since no one set up a way for people to specify shirt size and pay for them. Next year, I guess...

Re: stickers, since I haven't heard anything from Joe or Chris about Sector or any of the Sector members making them, can you print some up, Tim, sort of the same type of stickers you did for DHMN? We've got money, so let us know how much the materials cost. And you can get the graphic from Pete if you don't already have what you need for that.

Artwork options C is attached to this email.

The Madison Google office came through with $600 today, so we should be able to figure out something over the next two days regarding food. If we only have 60 or 70 people around at lunch time and supper time, we could almost afford to cover both meals with the $1000+ we've gotten from sponsors, but probably couldn't do both if we have 100+ show up at meal times. I'll write something up tomorrow (Thursday) listing all the expenses and donations I'm aware of, and we can work out a plan for how to best use the sponsors' donations.

This is why for past events we've had people specify (loosely) when they will be there... it helps a lot with meal & capacity planning.

Speaking of donations, it sounds like we'll have some goodies and swag to give to the unconference participants. Brian, figuring out an equitable and fun way to do that was something you were going to think about, so maybe you can have a plan for doling that stuff out. Probably won't know for sure until Saturday morning what all we're getting, but if we have a few ideas on that, we can at least have a starting point.

I have 10 unique codes from Shapeways to give away for $10 off their service. If I have time I will print each one on a card to give to 10 lucky people.

Pete

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[Pete Prodoehl]

I'd certainly pay $10 for an XL t-shirt...

Pete