[Arm-netbook] Crowd Sourcing Proposal

[Gordan Bobic]

On 10/10/2012 06:21 PM, Alejandro Mery wrote:
> On 10/10/12 19:11, luke.leighton wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Peter Steenbergen
>> <p.steenbergen at j1nx.nl>  wrote:
>>>
>>>>    so by buying this CPU Card - even if it's more expensive in lower
>>>> volumes at the moment - you're helping to support us in our goal of
>>>> serving millions of people, bringing them lower-cost flexible
>>>> computing.
>>>>
>>>>    you see the difference?  hmm, i should point that out on the page,
>>>> shouldn't i.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Luke,
>>>
>>> Alejandro sees it. I see it, but .......
>>>
>>> The mass does not see it, nor do they care. And if you want to have a
>>> successful crowd funding you need to aim for the masses, NOT us developers.
>>
>>    well... is that really true?  there's (at least) 3 groups here.
>> developers (350 people on arm-netbook), intelligent-eco-conscious
>> people (N people), and "everyone else" (i hesitate to use "the
>> masses").
>
> even if you focus in developers and so called intelligent-eco-conscious
> people you need to make an attractive proposal for something that can be
> used from the start for something beside collecting dust.

+1

This is an important point. The vast majority of developers don't 
develop for the sake of development - they develop because they need 
something done.

An EOMA module on it's own isn't particularly useful without an actual 
useful chassis to plug it into. Without at least one chassis type being 
readily available you don't actually have a product - you have a 
_component_.

> eoma68-a10 + mini engineering board for not much more than a cubieboard
> will probably be interesting to many eoma68-believers while waiting for
> a better card and a good eoma68 laptop. an eoma68-a10 card alone at this
> point of time is only interesting for those willing (and able) to give
> away some not-minor bucks "for the cause".

Spot on. What he said ^^^^

Gordan