Logo and t-shirt contest?

[Igal Koshevoy]

I'd like to have a Portland Ruby Brigade logo and t-shirt. It would be
nice to have one by the 10th anniversary meeting, but I don't think
that timeline is realistic for doing this well, but the September
meeting seems a more reasonable target.

Do you have any suggestions for an existing website or software that
we can use to run a contest to collect people's entries (e.g. contact
information, JPG of the shirt, vector file with graphics, etc) and
vote on them? I'm trying hard to resist my natural urge to write yet
another app. :)

I like the logo Reid Beels made for the @pdxruby Twitter account, but
it's still worth exploring alternatives.

A relatively easy approach to do is to have one or two designs, have
people reserve a size, and get a big batch made -- this worked great
for Open Source Bridge and kept costs low. A more complex alternative
would allow people to choose a custom combination of a design, shirt
color and size -- this has worked well for the Portland Perl Mongers
and attendees love being able to choose the color. Another tempting
alternative would be to use something like Zazzle and have them print
shirts on demand -- this would cost people more per shirt, but would
make my life easier by outsourcing all the logistics, ordering and
manufacturing issues.

Thoughts?

-igal

[Sam Livingston-Gray]

I have no recommendations for existing contest software, but I have a
NewRelic shirt from CustomInk, and it's quite nice. They're not
cheap, though: an instant quote from their site shows American
Apparel tees at about $15.50 in quantities of 50 with a few colors of
ink.

-Sam

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[Audrey Eschright]

On Jul 19, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Sam Livingston-Gray wrote:

> I have no recommendations for existing contest software, but I have a
> NewRelic shirt from CustomInk, and it's quite nice. They're not
> cheap, though: an instant quote from their site shows American
> Apparel tees at about $15.50 in quantities of 50 with a few colors of
> ink.

-1 to American Apparel--their size range stinks. I handled a chunk of the t-shirt research for Open Source Bridge, and can make recommendations about shirts and printers when we get to the point we're ready to order them. We'll need at least 2 weeks lead time, though, which makes the August meeting deadline unlikely.

Audrey

[Ramiro Franco]

Honestly, i'll take American apparel sizes over a bad cheap brand with
weird cuts like Gildan or Jerzeez.

[Sam Livingston-Gray]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Ramiro Franco <rjfr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Honestly, i'll take American apparel sizes over a bad cheap brand with
> weird cuts like Gildan or Jerzeez.

raise UnexaminedPrivilegeException

[Ramiro Jr. Franco]

It'll take too long to handle that exception, it's going to return a pretty big object. ( sorry if I offended anyone )

[Igal Koshevoy]

I'm sure that you both meant well in your own way, but there are more
constructive ways to say stuff like this. :/

It's important that we accommodate the diverse range of shapes and
sizes that our user group's members come in. However, we also want
shirts that are of nice enough quality that we'll actually want to
wear them. If we make shirts that people either can't wear or don't
want to wear, then we've failed. Can we please just agree to that?

The good news is that there are companies that make shirts that will
satisfy both of these goals. Lots of research has gone into this for
Open Source Bridge and such, and we'll make use of this knowledge as
we get further into this.

Love,

-igal

[markus]

> raise UnexaminedPrivilegeException

In a consensus based community, doesn't attempting to raise that
exception fail, raising that same exception, which then of course fails,
for exactly the same reason, ad infinitum? Seems like we're at risk of
a "500 Years After" ending here...

-- Markus

[Matthew Boeh]

I concur on American Apparel -- their shirts fit great on men with
thin rectangular torsos and women with thin triangular torsos. On
anyone else, they're baggy in the wrong place and stretched out in
other wrong places. The biggest problem is that their XL sizes are too
short -- combined with the clinginess, that means they ride up
embarrassingly.

[Ben Munat]

I'm confused. Where is the "like" button on this email?

b

[Igal Koshevoy]

So I got some great feedback from Audrey and Matthew about shirt sizing and issues with manufacturers. Again, I'm committed to us getting good shirts that will actually fit well, even if this means going with multiple vendors.

If someone would like to design a shirt, please post a proposed design to this thread. If we get a flood of responses, I'll revive the effort to find a contest app to help support the effort, or write an open source one.

-igal

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Igal Koshevoy <ig...@pragmaticraft.com> wrote: