FYI: At most of the meetings I attend, T-shirts are not proper attire.
I do, however, print business cards with the Apache Feather and Apache Software Foundation logo, and include my name and email address on these cards. Many of the students and professionals I meet are quite interested in Apache and anything that is managed open source. Sincerely, Steven J. Hathaway XALAN-PMC <shathaway@a.o> > On 1 July 2013 18:34, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > >> On 06/25/2013 08:42 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: >> >>> >>> I'd like to do some things to make it easier for our members and >>> committers to be ambassadors for Apache, and I'd like to propose a >>> concrete >>> step, inspired by Roy, from a thread on another list. >>> >>> (Eventually it might be fun to have an official Apache Ambassadors >>> program, which, like the other AA, is a 12 step program. However, I've >>> only >>> figured out steps one and two: 1) Be Shane (which he's already doing), >>> and >>> 2) Be like Shane (which encompasses many of the other steps.) ) >>> >>> Anyways, here's the concrete suggestion: >>> >>> Design and print t-shirts for our committers that plan to attend any >>> event, containing a word cloud or artistic rendering of project names >>> within the outline of a huge feather and underlined with a specific >>> message >>> that we want to convey ... like "I volunteer at Apache / ask me how". >>> >>> >> >> How's this for a start: >> >> http://drbacchus.com/projects.**html >> <http://drbacchus.com/projects.html> >> > +1 I like it. I would think a more rounded figure in both ends might be > more balanced. > > rgds > jan I. > > >> >> -- >> Rich Bowen >> rbo...@rcbowen.com >> Shosholoza >> >> >
