08-09-2021, 01:13 AM
(08-08-2021, 05:03 PM)tllim Wrote:(07-28-2021, 01:02 AM)biketool Wrote: (snip)
This is good suggestion and looking forward on PINE64 community organize an app store site. For sure provide some encouragement, swag, and PINE64 hardware can be offered.
I think an easy model to copy is https://garage.maemo.org/ obviously it is targeted at Maemo linux but there were at least three(and a half) devices with their own similar OSs supported. If we dig around or ask on the talk.maemo.org forum the code for the garage site and builder is probably FOSS we can fork. Perhaps just having people register their git for an autobuilder to grab from would be just as easy though.(edit) Maemo garage is based on http://midgard-project.org/
As for swag while I have already heard desires for t-shirts and whatever from younger local enthusiasts(probably older too); but I have thoughts.
1- like sending stuff to orbit every gram matters in international mail, also every gram and liter of volume is also greater risk for the post office to slap a tax on
2- If there is to be swag then hand out some account or pine crypto coin credits instead of pine64 choosing the random swag, for example I only wear my lifetime supply of the best tech swag t-shirts as pajamas(and I gave away or refuse all of the cheap thin ones or from vendors I didn't want to wear a billboard for)
3- make all swag hacker and privacy friendly, sure some of us want a loud and proud pinephone shirt but also consider a polo or hat with a small embroidered pine cone, most of us are privacy conscious and the target market would be more impressed by a subdued acknowledgement of our 'secret society' than
4- hacker friendly, I would be more inclined to like and wear a polo shirt(similar shipping weight to T-shirt) with a pen pocket in the sleeve or an 'operator cap' baseball hat with a velcro off pine64 patch and maybe a loop for a LED flashlight than something with function identical to what I could buy at any gas station(think the Kevin Mitnick business card), of course build quality is a consideration, you have no idea how many crappy laptop bags get chucked after a conference when the handle or seam pulls out. Target market for pine64 stuff is WAY off target from that of regular consumer stuff.
5- Stickers, quality UV resistant vinyl sticker for phones, laptops, car bs, locomotives, satellite dishes, and planes are in my opinion the sweet spot in terms of usefulness, coolness, mail/tax friendliness, and pricepoint; adding hacky-ness like a Mb capacity RFID(especially if we incorporate that into a pinephone add-on) or even include a QR code in a classy way improves the value per gram/$.
I don't want to discourage any swag, I love the idea of cool free stuff in return for effort, but the logistical side of me cowers in fear when I think about the time/effort to contract quality swag and then distribute it over the whole damn planet vs forum flair or maybe stickers.
(Remember when Ubuntu used to send out a free install CD and a bunch of stickers?)
