What do we want? New shirts...

BUG BLOG headquarters has received some correspondence - as follows:

"Could the new BUG shirts be fast tracked please as we have been talking about shirts for at least 2 years. Whatever the group comes up with, I want one! One of my existing shirts has a hole in it and the other one hopelessly faded and shapeless.... My size is M and I wear long sleeves." Kay.

As many of the BUG members know, the BUG has been talking new shirts for a while now. (Longer than I realised actually, if it's been two years!). The good news is, there has been significant progress. Ian did a lot of research into pricing through various suppliers, and we are have now made the decision to get the shirts done through Hot Designs, who offer the best pricing for a relatively small order of shirts. (Including no set-up fee).

At the October meeting Ian advised that Hot Designs can do long sleeve shirts. A price chart was obtained from them – the more shirts ordered, the lower the cost. 21 – 30 shirts cost $79.50 each. Dale provided feedback from member survey about shirts. Following discussion about shirt design and logo it was decided to work around the current logo and change the shirt design.

A few members went away and worked on designs or ideas for designs.

Here is an excerpt from the December '07 meeting minutes:
Considerable discussion ensued about the designs submitted to date and it was agreed that all had merit. John discussed the graphic design idea and US Internet angle. After much discussion it was decided that Rick’s concept was the one that should be pursued, though more brightness was required. Thanks were expressed for the work of Wendy, Jim and John’s designer (Julie Mozsny).
Plan: Wally to ask Rick to provide variation ideas that could be viewed pre the February meeting.

I gather Rick has done some work on this and so perhaps we could arrange to post them here on the blog for comment (and to at least show that we are nearly there!)

So, hopefully, Kay, we'll be seeing new shirts soon. Given the outlay involved per shirt, and the intention for them to last for quite a few years, we want to be happy with the design.

How to be a BUG blogger...

Welcome to Coffs BUG Blog - an interactive online journal and forum for our BUG members running alongside our Coffs BUG website . It is a way for BUG members, in between meetings and rides, to communicate about all things BUG and all things cycling. (Here's some more info on what a blog is.)

Any BUG member can contribute a post, and anyone can comment to give feedback on whatever has been posted. What is a post? It is basically just a journal entry, and it can be commentary, opinion, news, ideas, thoughts, links to interesting "stuff" ... whatever! As you can see, photos can be added as well.

The easiest method (at this stage) for members to contribute a 'post' is to email their post in any sort of document to trace(at)exemail.com.au. (replace the (at) with the @ symbol). Tracey will post it up for you as soon as possible - most likely same day. Photos should be attached separately in the email... and you should indicate in the text where you want which photos to be placed.

(If you are already familiar with blogging, or not fazed by working your way through such stuff, you could post your own posts. Talk to Tracey or John on one of the rides about getting the passwords and such.)

As the blog grows, we'll get a feel for the sort of categories of posts we have, label them, and then put a list of categories in the sidebar so that you can click on them and find posts on a particular theme.

Any photos of BUG rides would be terrific to post up. As you will see from the example post I did earlier the smaller photo in the body of the post links to a bigger size/resolution one - so it's fine to send a large size photo. [If you have some good photos, but only a dial-up connection I'll happily call in sometime and collect them on a usb-drive or cd] As the new website 'apprentice' (and on the lookout for more BUG photos) the better resolution you can give me photos in, the better, so that I can crop them down to the size required. If they are taken or given to me in a low resolution, I can't make them bigger!!

If you don't want to post, that's fine too. There is a comment feature at the end of each post (Select 'other', and use your first name..) Blog posters love to get feedback so have a go, and make them feel "loved". And this blog is all about conversation!


Tracey
BUG Website Apprentice & Blogmeister.