[advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris UG stuff

[Roman Strobl]

Kristian,

I do agree that a bit more decency would help, especially with the 
t-shirts. However I know about some people in NetBeans community who 
whenever the visit IBM they take the NetBeans t-shirt with biggest 
letters :)

-Roman

Kristian Rink wrote:
> Folks;
>
> maybe utterly off-topic, but just for the sake of it:
>
> Roman Strobl schrieb:
>   
>> there are also blue pens which are a bit more decent than the pink ones :)
>>     
>
> Something I also noticed about most of the NetBeans "fan gadgets" available
> out there: What's the "target group" of this stuff? I mean, being in some
> business conference or a cross-company developer meeting (where promoting
> NetBeans, Glassfish, OpenSolaris, ...) _really_ would have some effect, I
> can't show up wearing a t-shirt having "openSolaris" or "NetBean" printed
> all over it. If wearing a shirt there, a polo shirt with a _decent_ product
> logo / name printed, say, on the chest back in a _small_ way would be the
> best to do there, maybe options even would be limited to, say, having a pin
> attached to my jacket (what about a "NetBeans Cube Pin" or "OpenSolaris logo
> pin" for these purposes), or having a _small_ logo patch placed at the back
> of my notebook. No offense, most of the give-aways available to date aren't
> bad, but for marketing purposes in a business environment, they're next to
> useless.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Cheers,
> Kristian
>
>   


-- 
Roman Strobl

OpenSolaris Evangelist
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