I am a big fan of Spreadshirt. As a nifty philanthropic org SugarLabs may be eligible for some kind of discount / special offer. If SL is happy with the idea I have a few contacts at Spreadshort that may be willing to offer a good deal. <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Caroline Meeks <<a href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com">caroline@solutiongrove.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> +1<div><div></div><div class="h5"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Sean DALY <<a href="http://sdaly.be" target="_blank">sdaly.be</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <a href="http://www.cafepress.com" target="_blank">http://www.cafepress.com</a> <a href="http://www.spreadshirt.com" target="_blank">http://www.spreadshirt.com</a> <a href="http://www.zazzle.com" target="_blank">http://www.zazzle.com</a> <a href="http://www.printfection.com" target="_blank">http://www.printfection.com</a> <a href="http://www.vistaprint.com" target="_blank">http://www.vistaprint.com</a> Let's offer Sugar Labs branded T-shirts, stickers, badges (buttons), coffee mugs, messenger bags, mousepads, &c ! Perfect booth stuff. Great for spreading the word - walk through a crowd, 500 impressions :-) Here are five well-known "print-on-demand" services (feel free to point us to any others!). The concept is, there is no stock or upfront bulk orders like with traditional printers. We provide the graphics, the supplier does printing and fulfillment (including returns & exchanges, a perennial headache). Listings can vary from simple (users have to find our stuff on the supplier's site with keywords) to branded shop (users may not notice except for the URL they are off our site) to embedded (users are on our site but the backend is at the supplier's). Each one has strong points/weak points: for example Spreadshirt has good presence in Europe; Printfection offers T-shirts in many colors and provides APIs for a store on the designer's site (probably overkill for us). My impression is that signing up is not exclusive; we could go with any combination and make recommendations to site visitors based on delivery destination. Royalty rates, margin structures differ but my main concern would be quality + breaking even, if such a service doesn't cost us money we are already ahead by benefiting from the "free advertising" of t-shirt or bag wearers. Is quality comparable? I have no idea, but Spreadshirt has a good reputation. A friend of mine has used Cafepress for some time and never had a complaint. What I really like about these solutions is: * We can offer all 24 variants of our logo (the 12 combos on either white or black background); it will be interesting to note the hit-parade of sales * The Home View! * The Neighborhood View! * Big Icons of our favorite Activities... in different colors? ("EToys, a Sugar Activity") * Screenshots with impact (Speak saying something, Moon) * a Sugar Labs USB stick with text "Sugar on a Stick" * more ideas? We could shamelessly steal a great idea from our friends at OLPC France: a little rectangular Sugar Labs sticker which fits right on the hinge of an XO-1. Would be great for G1G1 "get 1" XOs... Help please, let's look at these together and make a recommendation for one or more suppliers... they seem very similar to me based on our needs, but they may have licensing issues or something. If we get this going soon we could be wearing (or even selling) Sugar Labs tees at LinuxTag Berlin ;-) thanks Sean _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list <a href="mailto:Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing</a> </blockquote></div> </div></div>-- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list <a href="mailto:Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org">Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing</a> </blockquote></div>