Recently Steve Stalcup aka Vorian ordered some polo shirts from the German LoCo Team. They were of good quality, and had the Ubuntu Logo embroidered on them. I don’t know what he paid for them, but I know he had to wait 3 months for them, and pay shipping. This got me to thinking, why don’t we get something going for the US? So I started looking around at web sites that specialized in corporate goods with logos. There are a lot! But how do you tell the quality of the merchandise, and the reputation of the supplier? The answer is, you can’t.
Now, I’ve been ordering from places like Land’s End for years, and the quality of goods is excellent, the company is sound and stands behind their product. So, I took a look at their web site, and they have corporate logo stores you can set up. No minimum order, a one time set up fee of $95, and a great selection of items for all. Tshirts, polos, throws, attaches, outerwear, dress shirts, etc. Almost anything you could want to display the Ubuntu logo on to advocate and show your pride in the Ubuntu Operating System.
I’m am going to set up a poll on the US Teams Project Forum page. The link is below. Please go there and vote on whether or not you are interested in supporting this idea. I am also including the link to the Land’s End corporate sales web site so that you can look at all the items you could get with an Ubuntu logo embroidered on it.
Forum Poll:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=529667
Land’s End:http://ocs.landsend.com/corpsales
August 19, 2007 at 5:19 pm
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August 19, 2007 at 7:16 pm
What about Cafepress?
August 19, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Donnie, CafePress is fine, and Land’s End isn’t a sure thing if we can find something better. What I do like about Land’s End is that they have a lot of other things besides shirts, ie: outerwear, laptop cases, etc. Land’s End items are also embroidered logos not silkscreen logos. I think that’s a little nicer and last better too.:)
August 20, 2007 at 6:54 am
have you guys checked out shop.canonical.com? i would be interested in what you think. It ships to the US and we are considering a US-based store in time.
that does not mean that there is not room for community efforts and we would like to support your efforts in this if we can…
Gerry Carr – Marketing Manager, Canonical
August 20, 2007 at 9:22 am
Gerry, I did check out the Canonical Store and found the merchandise there was nice, and looked to be good quality. When I started thinking about this idea, my goals were to:
A.Increase the market awareness of Ubuntu in the USA
B.Offer quality merchandise that is embroidered (not silkscreen)
C.Expand the number of items offered
D.Ease the cost of shipping to the USA
If you visited the Land’s End link I supplied, you might have noticed that the list of items available would be greatly expanded. ie:Attaches, throws, sweaters, outerwear,etc. Also expanded would be the available colors, styles, and more clothing items especially tailored for the women of Ubuntu.
Your idea of a Canonical Store for the USA is an exciting idea to me. I hope you won’t mind if I get in touch with you via email to discuss this further.
August 20, 2007 at 9:54 am
no problem. Look forward to hearing from you