Any interest in 3XL tshirts?
We're just ordering this year's tshirts (and they will look at least as nice as last year!) and it strikes me that the geek demographic seems to be getting smaller and smaller from year to year. The bulk of our tshirts are currently L and M where they used to be XL and XXL. Before you ask: by popular demand there will be two sizes of girl-shaped tshirts this year. We're still working from precious little statistical data on these so we can't guarantee we won't run out of them before the end of the weekend. Show up early I say, and even if they're gone let the infodesk know you'd like one so we have better numbers for next year. Having said that: we do get a number of requests for some larger tshirts (3XL and above) every year. When I asked our printer about these a couple of years ago they could not source them (easily) in small numbers. I'd like to try and do some again this year, but need a rough indication of how many we'd need. If you're interested in a larger tshirt, please unicast me an email. I can't promise we'll be able to get larger tshirts this year, but if there is sufficient interest it may be possible. FOSDEM: catering to geeks of all shapes and sizes (or trying to)! - Philip -- Philip Paeps Please don't Cc me, I am philip@fosdem.org subscribed to the list.
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 17:18, Philip Paeps <philip@fosdem.org> wrote:
We're just ordering this year's tshirts (and they will look at least as nice as last year!) and it strikes me that the geek demographic seems to be getting smaller and smaller from year to year. The bulk of our tshirts are currently L and M where they used to be XL and XXL.
Interesting, a study at OLS a few years ago showed a consistent change in the other direction... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
On 2011-01-10 18:34:57 (+0100), Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 17:18, Philip Paeps <philip@fosdem.org> wrote:
We're just ordering this year's tshirts (and they will look at least as nice as last year!) and it strikes me that the geek demographic seems to be getting smaller and smaller from year to year. The bulk of our tshirts are currently L and M where they used to be XL and XXL.
Interesting, a study at OLS a few years ago showed a consistent change in the other direction...
Hum ... perhaps it's a cyclical thing and we're going to find ourselves stuck with lots of M and L and out of XL and XXL before Saturday night? Oh no! :-) It's a losing battle. ;-) - Philip -- Philip Paeps Please don't Cc me, I am philip@fosdem.org subscribed to the list.
Hello, On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Philip Paeps <philip@fosdem.org> wrote:
We're just ordering this year's tshirts (and they will look at least as nice as last year!) and it strikes me that the geek demographic seems to be getting smaller and smaller from year to year. The bulk of our tshirts are currently L and M where they used to be XL and XXL.
I'm (gladly) surprised by this. Maybe geek health is improving? Probably too late for this year but: can we have t-shirts in "normal" colors? I mean, different from totally black and totally white. -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
On 2011-01-10 21:14:58 (+0100), Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles@elpauer.org> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Philip Paeps <philip@fosdem.org> wrote:
We're just ordering this year's tshirts (and they will look at least as nice as last year!) and it strikes me that the geek demographic seems to be getting smaller and smaller from year to year. The bulk of our tshirts are currently L and M where they used to be XL and XXL.
I'm (gladly) surprised by this. Maybe geek health is improving?
Geert's datapoint suggests that there may be a geographical variable. I can only speak for FOSDEM and I only have statistics for the past seven years. Also keep in mind that not everyone donates in return for a free tshirt every year - we don't have a 1:1 visitor/tshirt ratio. So in many ways our data is lacking. I would be hesitant to draw any kind of meaningful conclusions from them. :-)
Probably too late for this year but: can we have t-shirts in "normal" colors? I mean, different from totally black and totally white.
It has been a very long time since we've had black tshirts and we've never had white tshirts. You'll have to wait for February to see more of this year's tshirts. My lips are sealed. Have to keep some mystery going eh. ;-) Note that choosing colours for geek tshirts isn't as simple as it would seem. There's a significant contigent who firmly maintain that black goes with everything and any other colour is wrong. And arguably black isn't even a colour (if you subscribe to the notion that a colour is the reflection of a particular wavelength of visible light). Then there are the 'pastel vetos' and those who wouldn't be caught dead in red. We've had some (very) lively discussions about colours at team meetings... - Philip -- Philip Paeps Please don't Cc me, I am philip@fosdem.org subscribed to the list.
Note that choosing colours for geek tshirts isn't as simple as it would seem. There's a significant contigent who firmly maintain that black goes with everything and any other colour is wrong. And arguably black isn't even a colour (if you subscribe to the notion that a colour is the reflection of a particular wavelength of visible light). Then there are the 'pastel vetos' and those who wouldn't be caught dead in red.
We've had some (very) lively discussions about colours at team meetings...
Oh well, my point is very simple: dark colors attract the sunlight too much, which is annoying in Spain in the summer - it's hot enough here! :-) -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
Philip Paeps <philip@fosdem.org> writes:
On 2011-01-10 21:14:58 (+0100), Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles@elpauer.org> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Philip Paeps <philip@fosdem.org> wrote:
We're just ordering this year's tshirts (and they will look at least as nice as last year!) and it strikes me that the geek demographic seems to be getting smaller and smaller from year to year. The bulk of our tshirts are currently L and M where they used to be XL and XXL.
I'm (gladly) surprised by this. Maybe geek health is improving?
Geert's datapoint suggests that there may be a geographical variable. I can only speak for FOSDEM and I only have statistics for the past seven years. Also keep in mind that not everyone donates in return for a free tshirt every year - we don't have a 1:1 visitor/tshirt ratio.
So in many ways our data is lacking. I would be hesitant to draw any kind of meaningful conclusions from them. :-)
Fashion trends could be a factor too -- I think bulky t-shirts were more trendy 5-15 years ago and the preference today appears to favor tighter fits. My body size has been fairly stable for the last 15 years and I've noticed how I've gone from asking for size L/XL t-shirts at conferences to size M/S. In this, I'm assuming I have perfect grasp of, and is an apt follower, of fashion trends. :-) There could be inflation in T-shirt sizes from the manufacturer too. /Simon
We've had some (very) lively discussions about colours at team meetings...
Do you take orders? I'd love one in pistachio or fluorescent green. What's the point of a shirt if I am not able to be spotted from a km away? I also love to blind people as I go by with my logos. aL PS: this is of course a joke... unless you tell me you accept orders :)
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Simon Josefsson