Re: [guadec-list] Terms and conditions for registration

[Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>]

Dave Neary wrote:

> Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
>
> > I really believe we should avoid crappy quality shirts. Either we have
> > good ones or we don't have them at all. The kind of shirts that you wear
> > once and then throw away is a complete waste of precious source
> > materials.
> 
> I really believe that we should avoid expensive. Anything more than €10
> per shirt (production cost, VAT included) is just too expensive (that
> corresponds to a sale price for the t-shirt of €20, given that t-shirts
> generally mark up over 100%).

FWIW for the last few years at FOSDEM we have printed around 250
t-shirts, the no-VAT prices are ~2.70€ for the bare t-shirts (fruit of
the loom, "value weight"), and ~0.70€ for printing (+ ~30€ for the
initial frame).

Last year we considered to go with better t-shirts (in both quality
and "ethics") but this is of course not manageable at such a price,
and we wanted to keep offering t-shirts at 5€/10€ to foundation
members and visitors.

At Akademy two years ago there were very nice embroidered shirts, I
don't know how much KDE paid for them but I know I would prefer we go
for high quality t-shirt, despite the increased price.


Cheers,
        Frederic