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 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 > wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Ryan Rix > 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@gmail.com | MSN: phrkonaleash@yahoo.com > >> AIM: phrkonaleash | Yahoo: phrkonaleash > >> IRC: PhrkOnLsh@irc.freenode.net/#srcedit,#teensonlinux,#plugaz and > >> countless other FOSS channels. > > > > > > -- > > http://linuxgazette.net/164/kachold.html > > (623)239-3392 Skype: obn0sis > > (503)754-4452 www.obnosis.com > > > > > > -- > http://linuxgazette.net/164/kachold.html > (623)239-3392 Skype: obn0sis > (503)754-4452 www.obnosis.com > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- James McPhee jmcphe@gmail.com