Please create an on-line store where you can buy darcs t-shirts.  Proceeds to
benefit droundy.  I think you can do this pretty automatically by going to some
t-shirt-printing web site and offering them a cut of the profits if they print
the shirts, accept the credit-card payments, and the whole nine yards.

Steve Dekorte says "It's easy to set one up on cafepress"

I like this idea.

I believe cafe press can do this sort of thing.  http:// 
www.cafepress.com/

Is there a graphic designer around that would like to design the  
shirt?  Maybe someone knows one who could be commissioned.  I'd like  
a darcs shirt.  Designing the shirt might not be that difficult  
actually, as I recall there is a nice logo on the darcs.net site.

Nice idea.
Jason

On Dec 9, 2005, at 7:50 AM, Zooko wrote:

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> New submission from Zooko <zooko@zooko.com>:
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> Please create an on-line store where you can buy darcs t-shirts.   
> Proceeds to
> benefit droundy.  I think you can do this pretty automatically by  
> going to some
> t-shirt-printing web site and offering them a cut of the profits if  
> they print
> the shirts, accept the credit-card payments, and the whole nine yards.
>
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> title: darcs t-shirts for sale
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If someone will come up with a T-shirt design, I'll see about putting it up on
cafepress.  And I'd use the money for something darcs-related, although I doubt
this would raise much money.  If someone else were to take charge, that would be
even better.  I'm ccing Mark, since it was his designer who came up with the
darcs logo in the first place...

David

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:12:32PM +0000, David Roundy wrote:
> 
> David Roundy <droundy@darcs.net> added the comment:
> 
> If someone will come up with a T-shirt design, I'll see about putting it up on
> cafepress.  And I'd use the money for something darcs-related, although I doubt
> this would raise much money.  If someone else were to take charge, that would be
> even better.  I'm ccing Mark, since it was his designer who came up with the
> darcs logo in the first place...

I passed it on to Evan, the designer, and suggested he follow up if he
was interested.

Personally, I don't really like the t-shirt-as-fundraiser idea, in part
because I don't like the t-shirt-as-billboard idea, even for causes I
care about. I also tend to feel like Americans tend to already have more 
t-shirts than they can really wear anyway. 

Alternatives I've seen work are basic fundraising drives with PayPal.
Amarok just completed one, raising $5000. They used a cute volume icon
to show the progress towards the goal.

Also, I've seen http://www.fundable.org/ work for open source projects.
In this model, a developer agrees to complete a sizable feature if a
group of people commit enough money. If the goal isn't reached, the
money is returned.

In either case, fundraising works best when you have a specific goal,
like "We want to raise $5,000 to get our developers for an in-person to
hackathon to take the project to the next level."

    Mark

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:21:06PM +0000, Mark Stosberg wrote:
> I passed it on to Evan, the designer, and suggested he follow up if he
> was interested.
> 
> Personally, I don't really like the t-shirt-as-fundraiser idea, in part
> because I don't like the t-shirt-as-billboard idea, even for causes I
> care about. I also tend to feel like Americans tend to already have more
> t-shirts than they can really wear anyway.

I agree that this probably isn't much of a fundraiser idea, but if people
want darcs t-shirts, I have no objection to them buying them.

> In either case, fundraising works best when you have a specific goal,
> like "We want to raise $5,000 to get our developers for an in-person to
> hackathon to take the project to the next level."

Agreed.  And when (and if) we've got a real goal, we'll either seek
corporate sponsorship, or do a paypal donation drive.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.darcs.net

I like swag, and I currently don't have enough (nice new not-yet-worn-out) t-shirts.

I was thinking it would be fun for me to offer to give a darcs t-shirt every
month to someone as a reward for something, such as for "best bug reporter".  Of
course, if the winner didn't want a t-shirt then I would have to think of
something else.  Coffee mug?  I personally would love to own a coffee mug with
the pretty darcs logo on it.

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:26:30PM +0000, Zooko wrote:
> I was thinking it would be fun for me to offer to give a darcs t-shirt
> every month to someone as a reward for something, such as for "best bug
> reporter".  Of course, if the winner didn't want a t-shirt then I would
> have to think of something else.  Coffee mug?  I personally would love to
> own a coffee mug with the pretty darcs logo on it.

Ah, that would definitely be a neat idea.  :)
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.darcs.net

I don't think it could hurt.

Details on where to send Darcs money are on http://darcs.net/donations.html

Presumably we could have one of these stores where the cut of profit gets sent
to our SFC account?

I imagine that we won't get anybody designing these (help welcome!) so maybe a
simple logo-only t-shirt will do the trick.

http://darcs.spreadshirt.com/