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comprookie2000 Retired Dev
Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 925 Location: Sun City Center, Florida
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 5:46 pm Post subject: Gentoo Store Suggestions |
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I am helping out musikc, the maintainer of the Gentoo Store.
We want to ask the community for some suggestions.
Are their any products not currently in the store that you would like to be able to purchase?
Are their any graphic artist's that would be interested in a t-shirt creation contest,
or other graphics to enhance our current collection of graphics.
Gentoo Store
Stuck by NeddySeagoon 23 Mar 09 _________________ http://dev.gentoo.org/~dabbott/ |
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avx Advocate
Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 2152
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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I'd really like to have a laptop-sleeve, somewhat soft on the inside, but still protective, preferred with a zipper. I'd like one for my 11.1" book, in white/black/darkgrey with either gentoo-logo, some funky statement or larry the cow. |
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comprookie2000 Retired Dev
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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Yep, although I'd prefer a clothed outside, something like my current. |
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dreadlorde Apprentice
Joined: 16 Dec 2008 Posts: 243 Location: /adm/timezone/US_Michigan
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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How about some of those stickers that are on laptops that say 'Gentoo Capable' instead of the windows ones?
Like this. _________________ Ludwig von Mises Institute Quote: | I am not to be a shepherd, I am not to be a grave-digger. No longer will I speak to the people; for the last time I have spoken to the dead. |
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comprookie2000 Retired Dev
Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 925 Location: Sun City Center, Florida
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Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 12:40 am Post subject: |
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Well looks like there is a reason only certain products are offered for purchase. I received this reply from cafepress.
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Dear David,
Thank you for contacting CafePress.com. At this time, we do not offer the products referenced at these links as products you can customize with us. However, I believe these are wonderful ideas and have passed them along to our merchandising team. You are more than welcome to make the product suggestions on our community forums as well. I have listed the link below for your convenience.
http://forums.cafepress.com/eve/ubb.x
Also, you can begin adding products we do offer to your shop by following these easy steps.
1. Log into your CaféPress.com account.
2. Click on the “Your Shops” tab.
3. Click on the “Section /Products” link for the shop you want to add products to.
4. Press the “Add Products” button. This will direct you to the product list where you can select all the products available for you to choose from.
5. After selecting your product(s), and returning to the Products page, you can begin customizing your products by check marking/ selecting the item and choosing an option from the “Make Changes To” drop down menu.
I hope this information has been helpful! If there is anything else I can do for you please let me know.
We hope we have answered all of your questions. If not, please chat with us now.(Mon-Fri)
Best Regards,
Crystal R.
CafePress.com Support Associate
(877) 809-1659 Toll-Free
(402) 517-4480 Local/International
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www.cafepress.com
---------------Original Message---------------
Question: I am helping the Gentoo Foundation with their store;
http://www.cafepress.com/officialgentoo/
I am trying to obtain information on the process involved to add some products. We would like to add case badges like this;
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300279398802
also laptop sleeve's like;
http://www.baoobaoo.com/images_v2/upfilepic/200812322141092940.jpg
With some type of Gentoo Logo
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So looks like this is more involved than just adding a few items to the store. It involves the foundation examining their relationship with cafepress and if it is the direction they want to proceed. _________________ http://dev.gentoo.org/~dabbott/ |
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comprookie2000 Retired Dev
Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 925 Location: Sun City Center, Florida
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Frustie Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 31 Aug 2007 Posts: 102 Location: My own little planet.
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Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 1:11 pm Post subject: |
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If you dont mind me saying, and i really dont want to be bashing anything, but everytime i see some store featuring basic cafepress stuff i really just browse away.
I really do love shirts though and i buy a lot and in the past ive even considered buying a Gentoo shirt, but after seeing that it was cafepress i just donated the foundation some money instead.
I think with some original designs (and the Gentoo Community is bound to have some really good designers) sales and promotions would skyrocket.
But this is just my opinion ofcourse
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slackline Veteran
Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 1475 Location: /uk/sheffield
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Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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I'd definately purchase some laptop/computer stickers and no doubt a t-shirt if there is a design I like.
I'm not keen on the current ones as they are relatively simple. A funky picture and more preferably a snazzy tag would be great, but alas I am a) artistically inept; b) not great with punchlines/tags (probably why I've found a niche for myself as a statistician!).
slack _________________ "Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do." - Donald Knuth |
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d2_racing Bodhisattva
Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 13047 Location: Ste-Foy,Canada
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pa4wdh l33t
Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 891
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Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
I'd really love to buy some Gentoo stuff (i hoped there was some available at Fosdem), but my problem with cafepress is that i simply can't pay. Cafepress seems to accept a range of Credit Cards, but i don't have one at all. My preferred method is a bank transfer but it seems a bit outdated since almost nobody seems to accept it.
As for the stuff in the store itself: I like most t-shirts (especially the emerge system and "i'd rather be compiling") but i don't like the huge Gentoo logo on the back. Also for the ones with the logo at the front i prefer the ones with a smaller logo.
Best regards,
pa4wdh _________________ The gentoo way of bringing peace to the world:
USE="-war" emerge --newuse @world
My shared code repository: https://code.pa4wdh.nl.eu.org
Music, Free as in Freedom: https://www.jamendo.com |
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asturm Developer
Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 9296
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Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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ph030 wrote: | I'd really like to have a laptop-sleeve, somewhat soft on the inside, but still protective, preferred with a zipper. I'd like one for my 11.1" book, in white/black/darkgrey with either gentoo-logo, some funky statement or larry the cow. |
+++++ except for a 12" Lenovo |
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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Does someone know a shop, where you can order custom sleeves with custom graphics? I only found some shops which do custom sizes, but only on their standard-designs. |
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cach0rr0 Bodhisattva
Joined: 13 Nov 2008 Posts: 4123 Location: Houston, Republic of Texas
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:51 am Post subject: |
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pa4wdh wrote: | Also for the ones with the logo at the front i prefer the ones with a smaller logo.
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Yeah, this bothered me a bit as well.
I bought a hoodie and a tshirt
-both the hoodie and the tshirt *only* had a front logo.
-on the tshirt, the front logo was too big (I'm a 6'7" behemoth, I can't imagine how big it must look on someone normal sized!)
-on the tshirt at least, having a logo that is off-center, and NOT having a logo on the back, makes no sense.
I think for starters we need to revamp the existing t-shirt designs.
Then look and see if it's possible to add something like a wool cap with the logo, other little things cafepress (or a competitor?) is likely to offer
but mainly a revamp of the tshirts |
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cach0rr0 Bodhisattva
Joined: 13 Nov 2008 Posts: 4123 Location: Houston, Republic of Texas
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 3:15 am Post subject: |
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so, this is very crude work, done on a laptop touchpad mouse
something like this, with a console on the back doing something very gentoo-ish
for anyone curious, this is from the "gentoo-emergence" GDM theme. I don't know what the copyright or license on that would be
I have zero artistic ability whatsoever, so this is a crude hack...but hell, I'd wear it (clean it up a bit of course)
http://i32.tinypic.com/nbvuyx.jpg
have somebody who's good with graphics and photo editing do something like that, but make it look more like a purplish-blue smokey flame were coming offa the lil fella |
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pa4wdh l33t
Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 891
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:04 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
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-on the tshirt at least, having a logo that is off-center, and NOT having a logo on the back, makes no sense.
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I guess this shows how difficult it is to design a t-shirt: I generally don't like to have stuff on the back, just the front
I may be just a hack, but i like it
Best regards,
pa4wdh _________________ The gentoo way of bringing peace to the world:
USE="-war" emerge --newuse @world
My shared code repository: https://code.pa4wdh.nl.eu.org
Music, Free as in Freedom: https://www.jamendo.com |
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TravisB828 n00b
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huckabuck Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 14 Apr 2007 Posts: 110 Location: Bronx, NY
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 3:00 am Post subject: |
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I'd buy and wear that hat in black in a new york second !!! |
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comprookie2000 Retired Dev
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d2_racing Bodhisattva
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 2:39 am Post subject: |
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That one is cool actually |
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cach0rr0 Bodhisattva
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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clean and unobtrusive |
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comprookie2000 Retired Dev
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d2_racing Bodhisattva
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comprookie2000 Retired Dev
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d2_racing Bodhisattva
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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Damn it.... |
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