On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 04:53:23PM -0500, inode0 wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Robert 'Bob' Jensen > > We hear a lot of people say things like "I have my FUDcon shirt that I wear all the time." and > > "Oh I have the really cool case badge from X event" What about contributors that can't get to > > events? When do they get something for their work with the project? My Suggestion is to quit > > spending all the money on events, spend some on the contributors that make Fedora. order > > release shirts make them available to CLA+2 contributors let them pay the postage. Near the > > end of the release cycle dump the remaining shirts to a couple events. Give us a chance to > > promote Fedora and we will. I think contributors having the chance to get something Fedora > > related is a much bigger bang for the buck. > > This is where we run into a practical problem. Events are easy > distribution points. FUDCon is one place we can hit a group of > contributors easily. How many contributors are we talking about who > fall completely outside the scope of this? 500? 1000? 5000? Who has > time to package up and ship 2000 t-shirts individually to people > regardless of who pays for it? > > I'm 100% in agreement that we need to be more than mindful of > expressing gratitude to contributors for their efforts, we need to > actually find ways to do it. I would really like to see a more > systematic way of providing swag to project contributors. This I think > is a really worthwhile thing to think about ... and I'm going to go do > that now. > Thanks for looking into this, John. I think there's enough of a good idea here to volunteer a bit of time towards sending out shirts but the scale is what's daunting. Perhaps if we can figure out something like: * Having 500 shirts made and sent to one person costs $X0 * One person can process 500 shirts via individual FEDEX envelopes in Y0 hours. * Having 100 shirts made and sent to one person costs $X1 * One person can process 100 shirts via individual FEDEX envelopes in Y1 hours. We'd have a better idea of whether we can match the monetary budget with contributor time budget. -Toshio
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