[SFD-TC] SFD Teeshirts

[Arc Riley]

Being one of the more expensive promotional items, and something 
volunteers are likely to keep afterwards, how about allowing teams to 
collect money for these teeshirts before the event and send it to SFD to 
cover the cost of producing additional shirts?

I'm not suggesting /all/ teeshirts should be paid for, but if those of 
us in developed nations voluntarily covered the cost ourselves not only 
could they be guarenteed to receive a teeshirt but more free teeshirts 
would be available for volunteers in developing nations.

We're paying $10 a piece for a meal at ithaca free software association 
meetings, over $300 total in some cases, I see no reason why our members 
shouldn't be paying for promotional items they'll end up owning.

In fact, I'd say tack on more than cost of production/shipping, with the 
proceeds going for more promotional items for other cities.

I'll also suggest that other groups consider printing their own colorful
teeshirts branded for their local groups.  If the SFD people could let 
us all know what color teeshirts they're planning this year we can 
choose contrasting or matching colors for locally-branded teeshirts.

Overall, from last year, I'd say teeshirts and balloons made the biggest 
impact.  The CDs were indeed nice but there were not nearly enough of 
them (we had a reserve of 750 Ubuntu CDs and used most of them as the 
SFD CDs ran out within an hour of our event).

I'd say the tatoos could be done without.  We still have a majority of 
them from last year, sitting unused.  They were not colorful, so 
children didn't like them, and they could not be applied fast or easy 
enough to be useful for other purposes.