Heyho! Revisiting this age-old idea of an Umbrella with the swirl on the whole umbrella (and not just on one segment.) I asked a manufacturer, he could make it, with tolerance in alignment between the segments in the area of 2-5mm (noticeable if you look for it, but I doubt it will jump in your eye if you just look at it, the Logo is not that fine.) BUT ... it's not cheap. I'd need to make 240 umbrellas at least. Manufacturing costs alone would be CHF 18.41, and since I'd want to add some margin for the Debian project I'd propose a selling price of CHF30. (And then there's shipping and customs/taxes :-( (That would be a collpasible Umbrella. A streight umbrella would still be CHF 15.72, not that much cheaper, and I'd prefer the collapsible one to take with me. Design: White with the big swirl and "debian" in Kabel Bk on one of the segments. What kind of Pink for the swirl? IIRC Debian doesn't have a defined official color?) Still .... I'm thinking about getting this started if I see a realistic chance that they'd sell. (12 weeks delivery, so too late for Christmas already :-( ) To minimize my logistics, I would only ship them in lots of at least 5 umbrellas. (I'd probably make an exception for deliveries within .ch) Given those conditions: tentative poll (please cc: me!) * who would buy one? * who would buy >=5 and organize local distribution? (if you want 5 all for yourself, go ahead, of course :-) (CHF 30 == ca. EUR 20 == ca. USD 30) cheers -- vbi (Oh, and: of course, it has to be said: I'm cutting my own throat with this. Think about it ... you bought that camera for 350.-- last year even though you didn't really need it, did you? And then there's that high-powered green laserpointer even though it doesn't run Linux, and that cost you 100.-- as well. So what's 30.-- for an Umbrella? You'll use it, you know! It's not a meat pie with non-identified bits in it, either.) -- Perl: The Swiss Army Chainsaw
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