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From: Giles Sirett <giles.sirett@shapeblue.com>
To: "marketing@cloudstack.apache.org" <marketing@cloudstack.apache.org>
Subject: RE: Pirate Monkey?
Thread-Topic: Pirate Monkey?
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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 17:01:52 +0000
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Steve
You raise an interesting point: I raised the same points about the hackathn=
 shirts for CCCEU13 - but I've since seen the light....


I had a chat with another sponsor last week about why their (pretty cool) t=
-shirts were not being picked up. We came to the conclusion that it was due=
 to their name/URL being in big letters on the back.
The t shirts were cool, but a [anonymous storage vendor] name/URL is not
If you're going to get people to wear tshirts because they look good, I thi=
nk we could keep any mention of cloudstack down to some tiny text somewhere=
.
That means people are going to ask what the design is all about.

More is less

Basho do this really well

Kind Regards
Giles

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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Wilson [mailto:steve.wilson@citrix.com]
Sent: 26 November 2013 16:55
To: marketing@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: Pirate Monkey?

This is kinda awesome.

Only suggestion: it should say CloudStack a little bigger somewhere.  We wa=
nt people to know what we're reaping when we wear it!

-Steve

On 11/26/13 6:28 AM, "Mark Hinkle" <Mark.Hinkle@citrix.com> wrote:

>I was thinking on the flight home about CCCEU13 and how we might market
>our "pirate" image in contrast to some of our competition.
>Maybe for 2014 we can wave our Pirate flag -
>http://www.flickr.com/photos/encoreopus/11067774665/ at events and do
>some matching t-shirts.
>http://www.flickr.com/photos/encoreopus/11067701755/
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Mark

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