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Hey Frank :)

> They love feeling like they are a part of the community even if they are overseas

Companies that give out swag should learn from this: ship swag anywhere. If someone does something on their own to provide value to your community then $70 to ship a t-shirt to Lebanon is worth it.

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Is it still "swag" (stuff we all get) if you pay for it (and eventually for the shipping)? I bought a couple of tees and stickers from Github because I love everything about them and I thought it would be nice to support them - that was before that $100mm investment. I think people should buy merch from companies they admire and want to support even more. $15 bucks a month for a tshirt with the name of a service you don't use and might even never heard of seems a bit weird.

So would you NOT buy stickers from them post investment? Isn't the bigger point of stickers to show the world that you support Github, rather than to financially support them?

Certainly! Working on a tshirt api (http://swagmate.startupthreads.com/) to do just this, since the hard part for companies I have spoken to seems to be the managing of this process

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