[Arm-netbook] mele a1000 - best way to get newbies up and running

[moo cow]

Hi,

Havn't got a mele A1000 yet ... got a friend to pick me one up (he has a
factory in china) .. due to pick it up on my hols in Spain this summer all
being well :-)

You're absolutely right about the wiki, problem is populating the wiki with
enough detail to allow newbies (if thats what you want to allow) to pick it
up and run with

Putting links to compiled files and sd card images (if thats something you
guys want to go to support newbies) in the wiki is ideal.

At the moment the mele1000 is the closest you guys have to a product and
IMHO it might not be a bad idea to provide a bit of support around the
mele1000 to attract a community around your offering for the time you're
ready to launch a product ....

If i take the dockstar/iconnect/pogoplug devices as an example .. pretty
useless devices in the real world but sites just as Jeff Doozan's
attracted large numbers of people around them (by providing clear simple
hack instructions and support files/scripts) to open up these devices in to
something really very useful ... this is why IMHO the ebay prices of these
devices held up so well when the real sales were so poor .. nowadays the pi
has killed them off (although the pi has not started shipping yet)  ...
some nice little ideas like using those cheap keyring photoframes as dirt
cheap monitoring screens

with the raspberry pi there are no shortage of newbies desperate to buy but
nokia is struggling to find developers to give (their 400 guaranteed from
the first batch) them away to for nothing to Qt developers .. if you guys
have a desire to reach batch sizes of 100k's then youre gonna neeed these
newbies ;-)


rgds

ian
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