We’ve been thinking of printing up some OSNews T-shirts. We’re going to print up a whole batch of them, and we wanted to get some feedback on what they should look like. Would you be interested in buying a shirt? What would you like it to look like?We want to encourage OSNews t-shirt wearing, so we’re trying to keep the price at around $10 per shirt. To reach that price point, we’re going to use silkscreening, (unlike the Cafepress shirts that we’ve had up for a while which use a more expensive one-off photo transfer process) so we’re going to use our just-minted flattened logo on the shirts, which should be compatible with the silkscreening process.
One question I had was whether it should just say “OSNews,” should it include our old standby slogan “Exploring the Future of Computing,” or should it say something else, something clever and cheeky? Please give your opinion in the comments. If you recommend a new slogan for the shirt and we use it, you’ll get a free shirt!
We also welcome recommendations of other types of OSNews swag to offer for sale, like mugs or yoyos.
The current plan is to print the shirts on a natural/light tan colored shirt. If you feel strongly that we should offer a different color — which? and why?
We recently made some very nice embroidered polo shirts for OSNews staff to wear when we go to conferences and other industry events. We could also make up some of those if there’s a market for them. They’ll probably cost at least $30. If you would be interested, we’d like to know. (excuse the strange color of the photos)
Lastly, if anyone can recommend a good T-shirt printing company, if we use your recommendation, you’ll get a free shirt.
Feel free to email me your suggestions or comments if you don’t want them public, and if you’re expressing an interest in an item or making a suggestion in the comments, please use a valid email address in the form, or I won’t know who you are.
I supose Billy Gates getting spanked by Tux might be out of the question huh?
I know what about all the mascots in a wrestling ring?
“More than Windows and Linux” though that’s a bit long.
Hello, I am really intrest on getting this t-shirt but im from MALAYSIA, how i can get it.
My suggestion is :
– To Paste all the OS Icon and write the OS name with simple at the back of T-Shirts. In the front of the T-SHirt paste the OS News icon at the right conner and then write the address of the osnews website.
plz, replay my email, im a fans of osnews website and im NCC degree student from Malaysia.
[email protected] [plz, to email me]
http://www.cafepress.com
I know they do stuff from cloths to coffee cups and stuff. Don’t really know the quality, but I if you want to ask, I could ask the admin for the gaming server I know that uses these people about the quality.
Actually /. just put out new t shirts.
Also, /. routinely posts news that OSNews gets first too!
As long as any logos or other graphics are unobtrusive — just something small and tastful in the upper left or right corner of the chest (or even just on a sleeve). The green & silver OSNews logo is nice.
Oh, and make sure the tee-shirt is available in -bg grey75 or so.
tasteful
How about giving one to each of the paying subscribers (what happened to the monthly drawings promised)? Also, seems I the cookie.php changed to a login screen which I got no info (username/pwd) to access…
Oh well, OSNews still rocks
Az Jim
The polo shirts look really cool. It seems to be the fad in industry lately [those non-software people take a while to get with it1] to pass out Polo shirts to vendors, etc. A version of the Polo would be cool. Of course something other than black or white would look nice. I’m partial to bright green, but that’s just me.
A really cool idea would be to do a T-shirt version of the desktop wallpaper you did several months ago with all the OS icons. That would be a real conversation starter. Unfortunately, you might have a problem with certian companies refusing to share a t-shirt with other ones…and the “registered trademark” text would require a t-shirt about ankle leangth!
>Actually /. just put out new t shirts.
Yes, indeed funilly enough. David has being working on these t-shirts and their creator for more than a month from what I know, but it was somehow weird that our t-shirts were finally ready when Slashdot’s did too. :o)
erm you could put the MS Eula and or the GPL license on back or front in opposition, but I doubt you’d get away with that. Maybe throw in MIT, BSD now that would be a pretty boring shirt, pretty close to Pii = 3.14159265…………………………………………………… …………………..
better not
> http://www.cafepress.com
Cafepress has a terms of service policy that should keep any company from using it.
Refrencing: http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/help/memberagreement.aspx
6.2 Rights to Member Content: You will retain all rights to your Member Content. You hereby grant to CafePress.com a royalty-free, worldwide, nonexclusive, right and license to use your Member Content in connection with the advertising, promotion, production and sale of the Products you choose to sell in accordance with this Agreement. You grant CafePress.com permission to reproduce your Member Content in CafePress.com marketing and advertising, provided CafePress.com credits you as actual owner of the Member Content. CafePress.com will not represent that it owns your Member Content. If you or CafePress.com terminate your account, CafePress.com will cease its use of your Member Content as soon as reasonably practical.
I don’t know about you guys, but I can never get enough yo-yos.
Yo-yo print: a compass.
Yo-yo print: (upwards arrow) Suns long-term vision went thatta way.
just make it hella cool… and i’ll pick one up… i appreciate the site and i’m at least willing to support it…
thanks!
I bought it long time ago; it looks very good in the front and I like it.. I have paid the member for no ads and shirt.. 🙂
Anyway, how about setup a contest to see who has the best design of t-shirt? And, the best quote like ‘Exploring the Future of Computing’ or something else. I think, the orignal logo has to be stay same.
I think it would look nicer without “Exploring the Future of Computing,” but I’m not planning on buying one so I guess my opinion isn’t terribly important.
I don’t know about you, but I wear almost exclusively black t-shirts. Seems the majority of computer savvy/computer nerds wear mostly black. Wouldn’t it stand to reason that offering black shirts would be reasonable? But yeah, if they were done tastefully (as the samples seem to show), I’d get one.
Actually, I’d kind of prefer a black t-shirt myself too.
Fashion nerds wear black too.
I think the staff shirts shown looked cool.
What about “one ring to rule them all” and have the O in OS news Gold .. i know this is pretty bad as far as copyright but i`m sure SCO will own it soon and they can just add it to the list against us all :0)
Front: OSNews logo. Probably with the slogan.
Back: Smaller OSNews logo on the top. Underneath, a list of all the operating systems that you’ve written news about in alphabetical order. Black would be a nice color for the list. Optionally, if you like the idea, you could add some sentence under the list. “Which OS would you like to read about?” or “What do you run?” or “All these and more!” or simply “www.osnews.com”. The good thing is that the smaller OSes would get some publicitiy as well.
Oh and if you do this, just add Windows as “Windows” and not as different versions (98, ME, NT, and so on).
If you use this idea, let me know via e-mail. I don’t often follow the comments section.
I’m not a big fan of colored shirts to be honest. White and black ones with the OSNews logo and “Exploring the future of computing” possibly along the arm band or in a small bring on the back would be cool. Something that says OSNews but is still dressy, not completely advertisement material.
Someones idea to have logos of different OSs/OS Manufacturers would indeed be cool but as they mentioned, copyrights. Bummer! You could always just put on OSS logos and hope that we don’t look biased.
Let’s see, Tux, BSD Daemon, OpenBSD’s Blowfish, the Debian logo, KDE and GNOME logos, Gentoo’s face-thingy logo and of course, a picture of a short darkhaired man with a long beard (RMS).
I may just buy one (If you’ll ship to Australia)
I prefer blue actually… But anything dark is good. We nerds don’t like to stand out in crowds, so we wear dark clothes.
lol
And I have an idea for the shirt! How about a giant OSNews logo on the back, and on the front there can be a big picture of Eugenia??
oh! and we can steal that slogan from Jordan, instead of wanting to be like Mike. The shirt can say “I want to be like Eugenia!”
Logos would certainly be out of the question, but I don’t see anything wrong with just listing the OSes that the site covers using the same font and plain black text. If you want to be sure, just add a small notice somewhere saying “all trademarks are copyrighted by their respective owners” or something similar.
> Logos would certainly be out of the question, but I don’t see anything
> wrong with just listing the OSes that the site covers using the same
> font and plain black text.
I doubt that logos such as the ones from GNOME, Gentoo, Debian or KDE could cause problems. It would be very uncharacteristic for these projects to kick up a fuss. No offence, but I don’t think that black text with the OSs listed would look very aesthetically pleasing. We’d be better off with just the OSNews logo (IMHO).
Just my 2.5 cents…
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Kuro5hin.org seems to be hate Cafepress (so does fuckedcompany.com, btw), and use Jinxhackwear:
http://www.jinxhackwear.com/scripts/details.asp?affid=-1&productID=…
I’ve heard a great number of complaints about Cafepress’s shoddy quality.
I’d like just a white t-shirt with the OSnews logo across the chest.
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| OSNews |
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Well, something like that.
I think we need a T-shirt that adequately emphasizes the news portion *and* the commentary portion of OSNews.
On the front:
OSNews logo with motto “Exploring The Future Of Computing”
On the back:
Flames graphic with text: “Re: OSNews: No it’s not, you ignorant jerk”.
We’ve been thinking of printing up some OSNews T-shirts. We’re going to print up a whole batch of them, and we wanted to get some feedback on what they should look like. Would you be interested in buying a shirt? What would you like it to look like?
Translation:
We’ve been thinking of making a little bit more money because our subscription program isn’t going too well. Would you be interested in giving us some money and advertising our brand by wearing a shirt? Please tell us how it should look, we don’t have the means to do research on marketing.
Mod me down! You know you want to 🙂
I like the look of the logo with the slogan. Plus I think that the existing slogan is very good and should remain. I would also like to be able to get this on a plain white t-shirt.
Just my opinion…
Thanks for supplying this great site.
./ also get way more news entries then OSNews, and in many other categories that OSNews has, such as Science, and Games, etc. The hold up with ./ is they are probably looking for the best one to come in.
I live in Brazil!
It is possible to you send this shirts overseas?
If I can’t get one shirt, it’s ok to reproduce your logo and make OSNews shirts for myself and my geek friends?
I love the t-shirt idea.
Here are my humble suggestions:
1. Somewhere on the shirt the OSNews URL needs to appear. This is a simple, short, clear way of telling the uninitiated that this is a *website* (not a printed magazine, newspaper, radio program, etc.), and here (URL) is how to find it and check it out for yourself.
2. The “Exploring…” tagline is fine, but I do really like “What do you want to boot today?” because it plays on the well-known Microsoft tagline “Where do you…?” For my part, I would like to suggest this tagline: “How will you talk to your computer tomorrow?
Thank you.
Forgive me for replying to my own post, but I forgot to include my “vision” for the t-shirt as a whole.
Front side:
OSNews logo and “Exploring…” tagline. Small to medium size on the upper left chest area. Full color.
Back side:
“How will you talk to your computer tomorrow?“, followed by a blank line, followed by “www.OSNews.com”. This should fill most of the back of the shirt. Black ink.
The verbiage on the back needs to be somewhat intriguing and seductive so that the reader will have unanswered questions after he or she reads it. And where are the answers to be found … the URL comes immediately after the verbiage and directs the reader to the website. I know that this is standard fare, but it is highly effective. That is why it is now standard.
Thank you.
Czeslaw Czapla
I really go for the OS News wallpaper on the T Shirt idea. I would surely buy it, if it included OS/2 icons. Another idea, is a grouping of some of the major Linux distro mascots….
I’m a simple guy and I like simple things. No fractal shirts or anything like that. Just a grey shirt (solid, not that “marble” look some shirts have when the fibres cross and the dye looks different) with the OSNews logo and text would be OK. And please, no stereotypes or bad office humour (“I’ll fsck you.. hehehe.. hehehhe.. snort..”).
Oh, forgot to mention. Unfortunately, I can’t buy the shirt, though. Because in Northern Europe it’s pretty hard for a decent hard working guy to get VISA or anything like that if he happens to be under 25 years or smth.
How about this one … a big plain ‘OS News’ logo on the front, and all the article icons at the back.
Long live BeOS! should be on every t-shirt. Just gotta say it!
2. The “Exploring…” tagline is fine, but I do really like “What do you want to boot today?” because it plays on the well-known Microsoft tagline “Where do you…?” For my part, I would like to suggest this tagline: “How will you talk to your computer tomorrow?
The next time someone suggests that we once more copy the Microsoft tagline is the time I throw up. There have been enough jokes on that thing and I’m getting sick and tired of it. Please avoid if possible.
Getting logos and mascots of every OS would be quite impossible as well since many projects don’t have a mascot and many don’t even have a consistent logo. How about just a simple list?
Now the number one flaming issue: can we count Linux distros separately or as just one Linux?
I’m buying 2 fashionable shirts and funding a pack of 5 t-shirt appliques sent to whatever part of the EC (darkest India?) forbids kids to buy their own t-shirts; a background pattern might be nice. One applique for front/back, one armband-type…any other logo sections needed?
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