Dear Team Leaders, Some of you may wonder why you should buy "official" SFD shirts for AUD$20 when you can make your own locally for less than that. There is some overhead that comes with having "official" shirts, doing currency conversions to pay for them, and then shipping them all over the world. In the end, that AUD$20 (and even the lower prices for teams in developing nations) subsidizes the cost of the free t-shirts, which is all some teams can afford. Don't look at it as "buying a shirt," think of it as contributing to the global effort to educate the public toward the ideals of Software Freedom. "Freedom isn't free", and purchasing SFD shirts for your teams enables us to send more shirts to everyone overall. SFI[1] is a non-profit organization and all our funding is exhausted to provide these materials to SFD teams each year. This year we decided to take a risk with the potential reward that hundreds more of you could sport SFD T-Shirts at your events in 2006. We bought more shorts than we could afford to ship, at the risk that not enough of them would sell. As our budget stands now, we still need many of your teams to purchase shirts or we will not be able to afford to ship all of the free shirts[2], and we would like every team to have two free shirts. So if your team can afford shirts, or you'd like to buy a SFD shirt for your mom -- or anybody else! -- please order yours today so that we can ship as many of the free ones as possible! We'd like to see you all in orange at your SFD celebrations, so help out the other teams around the world and buy your SFD shirts today! Buy shirts here: http://tinyurl.com/h3kgl Discounts are available for team purchases and those in developing nations; email info@softwarefreedomday.org for more information. Regards, Matt Oquist [1] Software Freedom International: http://softwarefreedomday.org/sfi [2] Shipping is included in the price of purchased shirts, so all the purchased shirts are guaranteed to ship. The only items at risk are the free shirts; we may not be able to ship all of them. -- --------------------------------------------------------- SoftwareFreedomDay.org : Celebrating Free and Open Source Software in Your Community info AT softwarefreedomday.org http://softwarefreedomday.org/ SFD Sponsors: http://canonical.com http://www.dkuug.dk http://ibm.com