OT: Shirts!

[James Mcphee]

Could go with a sort of communist-esque catchphrase like:
"Freedom is not optional"
or
"freedom || die"

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:17 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:

> ABELconf Tee shirt idea:
>
> Sponsorship: (list of all the sponsors for the con)
>
> 12 Steps of Free Open Source
>
>    * Step 1 - We admitted Microsoft was powerless over our IT use -
> that many IT systems had become unmanageable
>    * Step 2 - Came to believe that a Power greater than Microsoft
> could restore us to sanity
>    * Step 3 - Made a decision to turn our IT hardware and phones over
> to the care of Free Open Software Source
>    * Step 4 - Made a searching and fearless inventory of our IT security
>    * Step 5 - Admitted to ourselves the exact nature of closed
> sources, IT compartmentalization and monopoly restricting wide
> engineering advancement
>    * Step 6 - Were entirely ready to support FOSS through volunteering
>    * Step 7 - Humbly asked everyone to expose these limiting costly
> shortcomings widely
>    * Step 8 - Made a list of all areas that Microsoft had harmed, and
> became willing to find replacement solutions for them all
>    * Step 9 - Made direct FOSS source, education and training
> contributions where ever possible
>    * Step 10 - Continued to take IT source inventory and when
> processes and programs were too expensive and wasteful promptly
> admitted it
>    * Step 11 - Sought to improve our conscious understanding of the
> truth outside of clever marketing campaigns
>    * Step 12 - Having had an intellectual awakening as the result of
> these steps, we tried to carry this message to all others and to
> practice ethical FOSS principles in all our IT affairs
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Lisa Kachold<lisakachold at obnosis.com>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Ryan Rix<phrkonaleash at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> On Sun 12 July 2009 10:33:58 pm Lisa Kachold wrote:
> >>> Anyone have a good README shirt idea for FOSS ABLEconf?
> >>>
> >>> You don't suppose ABELconf would let me run a whole Tee shirt/swag
> booth?
> >> Ask in ABLEconf's discuss mailing list ;)
> >>
> >>>
> >>> http://www.obnosis.com/motivatebytruth/grandma.jpg
> >>>
> >>> http://www.obnosis.com/motivatebytruth/linux-communism.jpg
> >>>
> >>>
> http://dnsproblem.spreadshirt.net/en/NL/Shop/Article/Index/article/Everythi
> >>>ng-is-a-1589446
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Segment 9786902 of the Laugh at Randal Schwartz Series:
> >>> Jono Bacon,
> >>> community manager for Ubuntu (who has a wonderful accent!)
> >> Isn't that the guy who did the heavy metal version of the Free Software
> Song?
> > No that's Richard Stalman, I think:
> > http://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.html
> >> --
> >> ---
> >> Ryan Rix
> >> (623)-826-0051
> >>
> >> Less is more or less more
> >>        -- Y_Plentyn on #LinuxGER
> >>
> >> http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com | http://twitter.com/phrkonaleash
> >> XMPP: phrkonaleash at gmail.com          | MSN: phrkonaleash at yahoo.com
> >> AIM:  phrkonaleash                    | Yahoo: phrkonaleash
> >> IRC:  PhrkOnLsh at irc.freenode.net/#srcedit,#teensonlinux,#plugaz and
> >>      countless other FOSS channels.
> >
> >
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> >
>
>
>
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James McPhee
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