Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:32:59 +0100 From: "Paul Robinson" <p.robinson@mmu.ac.uk> To: "'Ethan'" <telmnstr@757.org> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Swag... new choices? Message-ID: <002c01c389bb$3e632340$6c01a8c0@MITERDOMAIN> In-Reply-To: <20030928152441.S83167-100000@users.757.org>
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> Long time BSD user (mostly FreeBSD and OpenBSD). > > OpenBSD team has some great swag: posters and shirts. Ahhh, but they have completely free use of their puffy fish mascot and a bunch of talented guys producing original artwork, music, the whole lot. We have more developers and fewer artists, and a mascot we don't really own. That makes it difficult to produce a wide range of artwork. When was the last time you saw Beastie in 2D in any position other than standing facing to our left? > Has FreeBSD mall considered new shirts? Even the same designs > on different > colors. Perhaps a competition of some sort? I think it also might be an idea to get some distributors further afield than FreeBSD mall - I've had genuinly AWFUL experiences with them, and a lot of people don't want to deal with them. Plus, in Europe, there are plenty of distributors prepared to handle this side of the Atlantic. The real problem though is free use of the logo/mascot. To really open up the market like OpenBSD has, you kind of have to consider... dare I say it?... changing the mascot. If you want to produce lots of mass produced stuff with loads of artwork and sell them, you can't use beastie unless you've cleared every item with McKusick: http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/mainpage/copyright.html That's fine, and I understand his reasoning. It just works against what you're suggesting unfortunately. > Also some posters would be nice -- We hang them in our office. I could > print stuff on a plotter but it wouldn't be the same as a > professionally > printed poster. And by far the cheapest thing to produce (and therefore buy) out of all the merchandise oppurtunities. A bulk poster printer will produce full-colour A1 or A2 prints for a remarkably low fee, you just need to order a lot of them. -- Paul Robinson
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