[Arm-netbook] crowd sourcing proposal

[lkcl luke]

On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Brendan Sleight <bms.debian at barwap.com> wrote:
> HI All,

 allo brendan

> On 24 December 2011 15:20, lkcl luke <> wrote:
>>>> formally submit it to one of the sites?  step 1, probably a good idea
>>>> to create a wiki page to write up a draft proposal
>
> http://wiki.hands.com//allwinner_a10/crowd_funding_proposal/
>
> I am dyslexic, so excuse any grammar mistakes - I can not see them.

 ok, the page itself looks great - the amusing thing is that for a
dyslexic person you can type "wiki.hands.com" pretty well, rather than
"rhombus-tech.net" :)  anyway, i've moved the page to here:
http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/crowd_funding_proposal/

 ok, my immediate thoughts are as follows, please do critique it:

 * trusting merit to create the CPU card, the next most important
thing is to pick a suitable chassis

 * personally i cannot stand tablets.  they're... truly dreadful.

 * i keep harping on about laptops, after all, duh, this is the name
of the list :)

 * thus we come full circle back to 10in, 12in or 15in

 * and gordan's mad idea for a 15in 1920x1080 laptop :)

remember we have a quote of $2000 for creating an adaptor board to fit
into a laptop chassis - but probably can do better than that.


> Feedback is welcome it is a bit of a straw-man at the moment. It is
> not necessary pitched at people in this list, more pitched towards
> people that would buy at $35 level (heck or even the $5 sticker
> level).
>
> Complete guess at the funding levels required for each stage. Plus
> another set of guesses for how many cards are available at each stage.
> I would be grateful if someone with more knowledge needs to have a
> guess at the time frames of each stage.
>
> Also I need someone to offer to do the work for - "* A testing CPU
> Card, with your choice of Debian Packages loaded by a Debian Developer
> - $250" as well as "Stable CPU Cards, with working OS image."  I am
> happy to get stickers printed and posted.
>
> Not a bad way to spend Christmas eve, better for my liver being down the Pub!

 :)