@Gargron@haubles truly a joy to welcome the folks who’ve made this incredible community and platform possible. There’s nothing like meeting someone for the first time in person after years of appreciating their work online!
I should probably mention, although it all belongs on the blog, that I’ve approved a 1,000 of these to be produced based on the polls I posted here. It’s a conservative number based on the amount of votes, but better sold out than wasted! It’ll take 20 weeks and we’re going to work with a EU and a US warehouse to keep shipping costs lower for most.
He’s here! The prototype, anyway. He’s big, squishy, and friend-shaped. We’ll try to make him as affordable as possible. You’ll have to wait a couple more months to get one, but we might open pre-orders relatively soon.
Out of curiosity, if the price point was around 30 USD, and we kept the shipping around or below 10 USD, and you wanted to order one of these, which region would you be ordering from? Trying to get an idea for the logistics.
Thank you to everyone who came by to say hi, share feedback, and buy our merch at #FOSDEM, it was awesome. Feel free to tag me in the selfies we took together if you haven't already, and use the hashtag #merchtodon if you want to show our merch to the world.
You Know we at #Cupofteasocial sold mugs before Mastodon put theirs up. They saw how popular they were selling at the time and made their own. Maybe I should do a set a mugs with and without the cupoftea.social writing. So Ill do these for a limited amount of time and see how it goes. #merchtodon
We are running out of mugs, so come quick if you want one! We also have screen printed cotton t-shirts and enamel pins. Building H, level one! #FOSDEM#Merchtodon
Come say hi at the Mastodon stand in #fosdem ! We are in the basement of Building H
I will be there all afternoon, with some nice Elephant-themed merch! Mugs will probably be out of stock in the next hour, dont wait if you want one 👀
@renchap I got my #mastodon muck! Nice talk with @Gargron@andypiper about activitypub and integration with other protocols and software like #mbin and ap groups.
That was fun! I think the @Mastodon table at #FOSDEM was the busiest I’ve experienced at an event for a long time - so great to hear from people that use the platform every day! The team enjoyed the chance to meet you - thanks for coming by! More #Merchtodon tomorrow… #WhoIsJohnMastodon