My co-worker Ric Wheeler asked if I’d be interested in trying my hand at a design for this year’s Linux Plumbers’ Conference T-shirt. I wasn’t quite sure where to start so I asked around for ideas on identi.ca and it started a great discussion with the ideas I ended up using. One of the ideas was a fun play on certain overweight Italian plumbers:
As you can see from my awesome notations, this is kind of not something we can do. Hmm. Jezra had the idea to form the letters “LINUX” using pipes – so I tried that with a much more subtle Tux popping out of the ‘I’ pipe. What do you think?
Sources, etc. are available. I don’t know if this will be the shirt so stay tuned. I do think this is a nice story on how open discussion in the community can result in some great ideas, either way!
Máirín Duffy 
Looks great, looking forward to getting one in November
Posted by Christian Hergert | September 23, 2010, 4:45 pmThat *rocks*. Any chance the conference might consider selling the shirts afterward as well? I don’t expect I’ll manage to attend this year, but I’d love to have a shirt that awesome, and perhaps the sold versions could help fund next year’s conference.
Posted by Anonymous | September 23, 2010, 7:20 pmSuch a shame it’s not allowed ! Still the pipes are nice.
Posted by Stu | September 24, 2010, 12:07 amSweet! I wish more conferences had t-shirts that I like to wear …outside of conferences. So far I only have the GNOME one by Andreas Nilsson 🙂
Posted by Hylke | September 24, 2010, 6:06 amA shirt like this would be great for the linux.conf.au Southern Plumbers miniconf…
Great shirt!
Posted by DDevine | September 24, 2010, 8:51 amIt looks a lot nicer than the “italian penguin plumber” version XD.
congrats.
Posted by Pablo Estefó | September 25, 2010, 12:46 pm