[Arm-netbook] Crowd Sourcing Proposal

[Alejandro Mery]

On 11 October 2012 14:15, luke.leighton <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
>> 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_.
>
>  the micro engineering board is easy to get done, and would likely be
> saleable for $10.   the mini engineering board, having things like an
> LVDS converter IC, WIFI module, USB Hub and so on starts to get up to
> $20 on its own, and, apart from the LVDS converter IC, really isn't
> anything more than what someone can achieve with an off-the-shelf USB
> hub and off-the-shelf retail WIFI USB dongle.

eoma68-a10 + mini is good. let's aim for that