[Arm-netbook] 248 cards

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68


On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Wolfgang Romey <hier at wolfgangromey.de> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 4. August 2016, 17:52:49 schrieb Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton:
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>>  the critical component there is the PCMCIA socket.  if you add up the
>> number of micro-desktop housings, laptop housings and breakout boards,
>> the total comes to 201.  so we're 80.4% of the way there on that one,
>> too.
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>>  no, the main thing is, we couldn't have predicted the ratios that
>> people would like to pledge for, in advance, and with a 20:1
>> difference betweeen highest and lowest parts it means we have to keep
>> an eye on things and do the maths.
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>>  basically beyond a certain threshold raised it'll be really easy to
>> complete.  hard work, but we'll have the funds to do it.
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>>  also with more funds i can start considering planning ahead.
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> I do a little calculation to estimate, what will be the outcome of this
> campaign, and think, Luke is doing that too and is prepairing the next
> possible steps.
> But I think, it makes at this point of the campaign no sense to publish the
> results and speculate about the outcome

 it's something for me to keep an eye on,

> What everybody should do at this point, is in my opinion to publish about the
> project and think about what one can do on top. Unfortunately (in this case) I
> am not on facebook and twitter anymore and will not go back there. That is my
> way of preserving my freedom and privacy. I write on diaspora* and gnusocial.

 good for you: really appreciated and respect that you do that.

> Would it be possible to write an email to everyone who has pledged and ask
> them, to inform their peergroup (again) and publish about the project in the
> social-media they use.

 yes -

> In the next days i will write a blogpost on my fsfe-blog about the sense of
> crowdfunding, that of course will name the eoma68 project too.

 the update for the 1080p60 video should be out by then, it would be
good to mention that the CEDAR engine reverse-engineering is a high
priority FSF project, and that it actually appears to have the
majority of functions working and useable.  it's not perfect, so can't
yet be moved to the "finished" FSF page, but is close enough.

l.