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The Better Swag: where is it?

Posted by Anonymous on Sun 5 Mar 2006 at 12:50

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A while ago, the company where I work purchased (in true dot-com style) another small company overnight, and those guys moved in cells to us. Now, they have this huge windows2003 banner with lively colors, as well as serveral other redmond-praising textiles. I'm not the jealous type, but I find myself in need to balance things a little.

Searching the net I found the usual swag like the cafepress shops with mugs, pins & hats, but I find myself in need for something that really screams "Debian" or "Tux" in your face.

A high quality banner (life size) would suffice (although only if used as office ornament ànd garment), as would inflatable tuxes stuck to the ceiling (we're housed in prefabs, that makes things more difficult).

Which shops carry this kind of workplace humanifiers? (yes, I checked thinkgeek, but they don't carry what I'm looking for - unless you can point me to something I overlooked?)

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#1
Re: The Better Swag: where is it?
Posted by Anonymous (212.119.xx.xx) on Sun 5 Mar 2006 at 15:44
Well, I think, you will always have the option of ordering a custom banner from some local small printing/publishing shop. I think they will be able to print something using encapsulated postscript or pdf files from Debian Logos page (http://www.debian.org/logos/). In Russia, at least, this is easier that way.

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Re: The Better Swag: where is it?
Posted by Anonymous (62.254.xx.xx) on Sun 5 Mar 2006 at 16:45
I'd suggest a huge and very pretty "Windows 2003: Absolute Shite" banner ;)

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Re: The Better Swag: where is it?
Posted by Anonymous (12.155.xx.xx) on Sun 5 Mar 2006 at 19:53
We need some punchy taglines. Here are some to get the juices flowing.

debian. when 365 reboots a year are 365 too many.
debian. because I want to /still/ be running an install older than my kids.
debian. because 12 hardware architectures and 17,000+ packages can't be wrong.
debian. because 5 kernels, 12 hardware architectures, and 17,000+ packages can't be wrong.
debian. because sporting wood-y for 3 years isn't always a bad thing.

tgarner

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Re: The Better Swag: where is it?
Posted by Anonymous (81.208.xx.xx) on Sun 5 Mar 2006 at 20:12
Find a nice tux/linux wallpaper, take it to a printshop and blow it up to an adequate size. My two recommendations are:
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=35567 (GPL)
and Nostromo2k3's Debian Moment (he has some other nice ones as well):
http://nostromo2k3.deviantart.com/
I'm not sure about the licence for the second one though.

I'm not sure how big they can be blown up considering the resolution, might be worth sending an e-mail asking for a hi-rez version.

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Re: The Better Swag: where is it?
Posted by Anonymous (82.181.xx.xx) on Sun 5 Mar 2006 at 21:57
These guys sell some gear: http://www.aboutdebian.com/gear.htm these too: http://www.linux.org/about/donate.html

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Re: The Better Swag: where is it?
Posted by kevinoid (24.58.xx.xx) on Sun 5 Mar 2006 at 23:29
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There is a good list of vendors for Debian Stuff at http://www.debian.org/misc/merchandise

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#7
Re: The Better Swag: where is it?
Posted by Anonymous (213.164.xx.xx) on Mon 6 Mar 2006 at 07:33
Actually I think it's a good reflection on you that you don't have a banner (!)

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I know the feeling
Posted by cswd (62.255.xx.xx) on Mon 6 Mar 2006 at 11:04
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Ironically, I work at a Microsoft Gold Partner (joy - unfortunately it pays better at the moment and I have a family to support!) and the place is covered in Microsoft flags! It's bloody awful!

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#9
Re: The Better Swag: where is it?
Posted by lykwydchykyn (66.236.xx.xx) on Mon 27 Mar 2006 at 15:55
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apt-get install cool_swag-0.1.4.

I think it's only in Etch, actually, but maybe there are backports. Don't get the one from Sid, the t-shirts made me itch.

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#10
Re: The Better Swag: where is it?
Posted by Anonymous (86.128.xx.xx) on Thu 20 Apr 2006 at 10:45
you could get a debian teletubby t-shirt from my site http://nerd.ws ;-) all running on etch of course.

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