Comments on: conference t-shirts

By: Coty

Coty — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 16:29:41 +0000

You’ve piqued my curiosity. What do these Chumby t-shirts look like? A cursory Google didn’t turn anything up. The results of a Google Image search were interesting, though of no help with respect to the t-shirt.

By: raju

raju — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 04:51:59 +0000

holl

By: Jane McG

Jane McG — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:28:40 +0000

I remember the year the Game Developers Conference started giving out tshirts in women’s sizes. That was pretty much the best I’ve ever felt about women’s status in the gaming industry!

By: Angela

Angela — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:01:46 +0000

What I love about my chumby shirt is that it doesn’t say “chumby” anywhere on it. It just has the little sexipus logo. It’s also brown and orange, the screenprint looks like a DIY job and it’s soooft! Much more wearable than any of my other tech-tees.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 07:38:15 +0000

I attended JavaOne this year, and I remember thinking when I got the t-shirt that I wouldn’t be caught dead in the thing. Anywhere. Despite this, to my surprise, the next day I’d say a good 65% of attendees were proudly sporting their ugly, nerdy JavaOne shirts.

I think a lot of developer will consider the nerd content of their shirts over the fashion cred it has.

But I agree with you.

By: Sam Jackson

Sam Jackson — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:47:23 +0000

Hey, I just had a totally random/scary thought that I figure others have thought about but I wasn’t sure if you had ever written anything about it. Simply: Facebook selling its tagged-photo information, working with facial recognition firms to train software. O.o

By: zephoria

zephoria — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:29:32 +0000

Webstock is a New Zealand conference that only a few Americans attended. Wearing that shirt has given me space to talk about what’s happening in tech in NZ.

By: Henriette Weber Andersen

Henriette Weber Andersen — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 02:22:29 +0000

well from all of this conversation sprang my wish to finally launch my t-shirt label…

I have for a long time remodified boring t-shirts from conferences…

I think it’s great to have this debate.. also because people will only wear things they fell comfortable and pretty in…

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:17:14 +0000

Well, I’m a nerd and understand little about clothes and fashion. Plus I don’t know what Webstock was. But I know what Java is. So, my guess is that the webstock people, conceiving themselves as hip, opted for fashionable, while the Java people, being nerds, opted for comfortable.

The shirt on the left is fine for providing an enhanced viewing experience for one’s audience, and is probably the one I would prefer to look at someone in. But to wear myself, or to select somebody to have an interesting conversation with, I’d take baggy every time.

But that’s just me.

-Steve

By: tiffany

tiffany — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 10:30:18 +0000

i’m guessing that a men’s large would probably fit the greatest number of attendees. but the best thing by far is to ask what size t-shirt the attendee wants when they register.

as long as we don’t have a repeat of the elexa t-shirt debacle *shudder.*