Demik has said that he prefers the old gh key group buys because everyone got a say in their design. There are two reasons why I haven't carried that forward. First, to keep things expedient, I invested seed money into a 'gh fund' to pay for a run of caps every month. Second, I have been working with SP on utilizing new experimental processes to produce some of the keys that can't really be run by the community for various reasons.
However, now that things are rolling, I think it's time for the community to bring its voice in to help design the monthly keycaps. The gh fund I established will still be paying for a limited run of caps every month, and those caps will still be fulfilled by at least one vendor who donates his or her time to gh (huge thanks to boilermaker for doing this for the past few months!). However, I absolutely want the community to help or completely design at least some of the caps (I still want to be able to surprise everyone though!
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My thought is that the May keycap or keycap set should be community-designed. To that end, BRING IT ON. Let's start brainstorming! You know at least a subset of the processes we have access to, so start throwing out ideas, svgs, anything you've got!
However, I do need to institute one rule. Please do not email Signature Plastic sales directly about your idea, concepts, processes, etc. Keep the discussion on the board and please let me remain the point of contact with SP sales; it is easiest both for me and for SP this way, as SP has a limited amount of resources to devote to pre-sales support.
