Open. Community. T-shirts. Very cool!
December 4, 2008 § 5 Comments
I’m super happy to see the Mozilla Community Store go live today. It’s one more step in open sourcing Mozilla’s story. People in the community can create and upload their own shirt designs. Any then others can customize and print around the designs they like. Here’s what it looks like:
Right now, all the designs come from the Firefox 3 t-shirt contest that happened earlier this year (some amazing stuff). Hopefully, we’ll see more and more designs up there in the near future. And, if I’m guessing right, we won’t just see Firefox shirts: people can also post designs for Thunderbird, Bugzilla, SeaMonkey and other Mozilla projects. Shirt hackers, here’s your chance.
Long term, I hope this store can become even more. A way to promote and connect people doing design for Mozilla cause. A way to swap ideas amongst designers. A part of telling the Mozilla story better, and constantly evolving it. I know Tara and John are thinking about stuff like this. Happy to pitch in to make it happen. It’s cool, and it’s important.
PS. to all my friends: I guess you know what you’re getting for Christmas, huh?
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I’m not sure other projects will want to use this site for creating apparel just yet. Non-Firefox shirts still have the Firefox logo and “firefox.com” on the back of them. I filed bug 467957 for that.
Mark, thanks for the great writeup. I’m excited about continuing to evolve the site and build our design community, like you were saying.
Sam, to close the loop on your comment, we’ve updated the store so now there’s the option of having a blank back (i.e., no logo or URL). Our goal is to have an appropriate back design for each product, but that takes more time to implement, so we felt like this was a good short term solution.
Bottom line is that we want people to develop shirts for any of the Mozilla products if they’re inspired to do so, and I think the store is in much better shape for that now. More details at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467957 if anyone is really curious.
Thanks!
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Great post, Mark! You might dig this T-shirt with Obama and Batman http://www.redbubble.com/people/dapixara/t-shirts/2448344-1-batman-yes-i-can
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