Heh, anyone that worked at Apple or SGI in the 90's could probably cover their entire request :-) Friends there used to joke that first thing a project did was design the t-shirt and print them, if it was a "cool" t-shirt, only then could the engineering begin :-)
My local goodwill has received hundreds of swag shirts from me over the years. I like to think the local poor in Miami are benefiting from the dot com boom at least indirectly.
I have huge questions about Goodwill. 1. Why are your district managers paid so much money? 2. Why don't you
prosecute store managers who have stolen, embezzled thousands of dollars? 3. I heard your Marin
Store has fired at least three managers(in 12 years)for theft. One was hired back? 4. Why don't you tell prospective donators that their donated items won't stay at the donated store?
5. Why do you only keep convicts on for one year? 6. Why
don't you wash all donated clothes? Your employees are telling the public everything is washed. 7. I really
question your nonprofit, and just who benefits.
Are we trying to suppress any critical sub-comments? I've never heard these complaints, and it doesn't look as though it's the only thing the user is posting. Seems interesting to me.
I rarely ever make such criticism, but that post seemed unusually detailed and unusually disconnected for a tangent. The post is also directed at a "you" who has nothing to do with this thread or source link. Fine as a dedicated thread or relevant tangent, but this thread is about giving shirts to a museum and he's listing prolific grievances with and directed to the leadership of an unrelated charity.
I have some classics: "This Shirt Is A Munition / RSA in 4 lines of PERL", "RSA It's Just An Algorithm", "DOOM II", "Matrix Special Effects Crew", "World of Goo" (Shirt Got Game), and others. I know they're worth something both $$$ and history. Wish I knew how to find a buyer or museum.
From the sound of it, it's not going to get a huge amount of use. Movie nights, events, etc. And, they look easy to make. So, if they have a lot of T-shirts, and if the interior foam holds up OK, they can just rewrap them in new T-shirts as they wear out. I'm sure it'll be fine. Cotton is pretty resilient. I have T-shirts that are more than ten years old and still mostly intact.
Given they're holding conferences etc. I imagine companies would be willing to make a decent donation to the IA if they used their branded cushions? At the very least I'm sure people like Mozilla and the Wikimedia Foundation would send t-shirts.
I'm currently wearing the Firefox shirt I got from donating $100 to the NYT ad campaign. It's looking pretty rough...I guess it's been eight or nine years. I've been meaning to order up a new one. It's always been a favorite.
We did a few clothing drive parties and had folks send us old startup swag to give to goodwill (and a Jamaican orphanage). Can definitely contribute to this also!
