@Gunnar, well said. It's great to know that you've been a long-time contributor. We could print some swag for GSoC students and contributors around Chennai, India. Where can I find some high resolution debian designs ? (I did manage to find a good-enough logo though)
To the people who're interested, I did a bit of research. Found this site : https://inkmonk.com/ T-Shirts - $5 Hoodies - $9 Laptop Sleeve - $12 Let me know if you'd like to get something printed. Regards, Vishal Gupta On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 12:14 AM Gunnar Wolf <gw...@debian.org> wrote: > Kartik Kulkarni dijo [Sat, Aug 04, 2018 at 09:13:40PM +0530]: > > Oh I am not a GSoC student either...I wasn't being clear in my previous > > email so I wanted to clear the misunderstanding. > > > > And would we be able to get those goodies if we arrange for prepaid > > shipping from any place in India? Also if someone from Bangalore has > > attended the debconf and was willing to get it I would personally head > > anywhere near Bangalore to collect it. > > Thing is... We appreciate your enthusiasm, and would love to have a > way to bring you closer to contributing to Debian! > > However, our distribution is just a group of people. There is no > company behind Debian. We don't _have_ "official swag", other than the > shirts we print specifically for our conference's attendees (and we > don't often print enough to have spares and send elsewhere - Sometimes > we might have some to spare, but surely not always! > > As a 15-year-old Debian Developer, I was waiting for DebConf to get a > nice Debian sticker to put in my new (used, ≈5-year-old) > laptop. Debian didn't give me one - I bought it from the Brazilian > group, who came with quite a bit of things to sell and fund next > year's conference. > > I encourage you to reduce the pollution in our world. If you want > Debian-themed products, print them locally in India! They will surely > be cheaper, and from I know from you, they will have even a higher > quality than European ones. Plus, you don't have to burn plane fuel to > have them transported from somewhere far far away to your home! > > Go to your friendliest neighborhood printer. Make many > stickers. Prepare lots of shirts. Do a nice run of USB sticks. Use > them yourselves, or sell them to other free software enthusiasts. >
