Обсуждение: How do we want to handle t-shirts this year?
Advocacy geeks, We have two ways of handling shirts available to us: 1) Order a large number of shirts etc. with the Postgres 9 design from a shirt printing company, and offer them in exchange for donations as a fundraiser, both online and at conferences 2) Leave "selling" of the shirts to Zazzle.com/CafePress/etc., and only do one small run for an event where we "launch" Postgres 9, plus the volunteer shirts. The main reason I'm considering (2) is that, as I measure it, we lost a significant amount on the blue Postgres shirts. Between the odd sizes which we had too many of (I gave 40 Women's XL to GoodWill), and the cost of shipping (shirts are heavy) and storage I'd judge that even though we made $12 on each shirt we got a donation for, it was still a net loss for SPI fund. (2) would also have the advantage that we could offer a variety of merchandise: hoodies, hats, totes, underwear, etc. Drawback is that we'd get very little $$$ per item (like, $1 to $4) and wouldn't have a reserve stock of shirts for general use. I'll also have some difficulty taking (1) seriously unless someone on this list steps forward to volunteer to be "swag czar" for the US/Canada. Europe has Andreas to do this, but currently nobody here is interested in spending many hours of volunteer time to track shirts. So, feedback? -- -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://www.pgexperts.com
Hi! On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: > 1) Order a large number of shirts etc. with the Postgres 9 design from a > shirt printing company, and offer them in exchange for donations as a > fundraiser, both online and at conferences > > 2) Leave "selling" of the shirts to Zazzle.com/CafePress/etc., and only > do one small run for an event where we "launch" Postgres 9, plus the > volunteer shirts. +1 on #2. I think buying a small quantity of limited edition conference shirts for a release is a great idea. But the run should be small, and the assumption should be that we are trying to get rid of them all during any particular event. The point of shirts, IMO, is to give people a way of associating themselves with a shared experience, not generating revenue. We do a much better job of getting larger donations from companies an individuals through our donation forms and conferences than we do getting money by selling shirts. -selena -- http://chesnok.com/daily - me
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Selena Deckelmann <selenamarie@gmail.com> wrote: > > The point of shirts, IMO, is to give people a way of associating > themselves with a shared experience, not generating revenue. We do a > much better job of getting larger donations from companies an > individuals through our donation forms and conferences than we do > getting money by selling shirts. Yeah, that's the view we've been taking in Europe this year. We've cut right back on the price of swag (in fact, some things like pens we've been giving away), the aim being to spread the logo as far and wide as possible. We're just aiming to break even, or make a small profit rather than make a ton of cash through sales. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company