Last year truly was the world's ugliest t-shirt. All those logos made
it so that it wouldn't even work as a dust rag. I think that the
Eclipse logo is one of the best, most recognizable, logos in software.
Keep the t-shirt simple:
Says it all...
Scott
Jeff McAffer wrote:
Yes! I have to say (and with
apologies
to whoever inflicted this) that last year's EclipseCon shirt was an all
time low in conference shirts. Plastered with company logos front
and back, it is hard to imagine many people wearing it. I have however
personally witnessed several people polishing cars and wiping up dirt
and
grime with those shirts. (Personally I used mine to catch toxic paint
chips as I scraped them off the bottom of my boat). Either way you
cut it, having their logos on that shirt did nothing positive for the
sponsors.
It couldn't have. People have to wear/display marketing materials
for them to have an effect. It would, IMHO, be a better use of the
sponsorship $$ to produce a cool, high-quality, well-designed,
well-executed
shirt that exemplifies the qualities we like to ascribe to Eclipse
itself.
Not to get too gushy but Eclipse
apparel
does work. There have been several cases where I've been wearing
my Eclipse hat (since lost overboard of said boat I believe) or various
shirts and people noticed and struck up a conversation about Eclipse
(they
use all the time and wanted to buy me beer, heard about it and wanted
to
know more, wanted to know the status of a bug report, ...). Heck,
even some of the Immigration officers here at the Ottawa airport use
Eclipse
(I was asked questions about it by one while wearing an Eclipse shirt
on
returning from the last EclipseCon). Note that in all cases I had
to be actually wearing the Eclipse item for contact/exchange to have
been
initiated.
I suck at graphical design (that's
why
I push bytes around for a living) so cannot offer an actual design
solution
to this problem but I am happy to help find/engage someone who is
graphically
enabled.
BTW, I assume this is actually the
wrong
list for this discussion but the EclipseCon site does not even say who
the conference chair is so...
Jeff
If EclipseCon swag hasn't been decided yet, I might
recommend
reading this funny post by Kathy Sierra to keep things in mind :)
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/12/tech_tshirts_ar.html
Happy Holidays all.
Cheers,
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