Re: [Open-graphics] Announcement: Finally ready to announce OGD1 pre-orders

2008-04-12 Thread Dieter
time between when we place our order for 100 boards and when we get (...) leaves us with a $6 bill to pay before we have any revenue, and that makes one card = 600 USD ? - The retail price is $1500, but the first 100 pre-orders will get a $100 discount. For deeper discounts, you

Re: [Open-graphics] Announcement: Finally ready to announce OGD1 pre-orders

2008-04-12 Thread Nicolas Boulay
So, to partially reiterate, here's what we need to produce: - Articles and interviews - Ads - An electronic brochure That's the harder part to do. Each ads will point to the product page on the web site but we need also a datasheet of the card. This data sheet must be as precise as

Re: [Open-graphics] Announcement: Finally ready to announce OGD1 pre-orders

2008-04-12 Thread FD Cami
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:34:42 -0400 Timothy Normand Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The OGD1 design has actually been finished for a couple of months now. Congrats. - Publicity info about OGP, OHF, etc. Where shall we start? The 2008 Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is in Wrocław, Poland, 8-11th

Re: [Open-graphics] Announcement: Finally ready to announce OGD1 pre-orders

2008-04-12 Thread Timothy Normand Miller
On 4/12/08, Raphaël Jacquot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Timothy Normand Miller wrote: time between when we place our order for 100 boards and when we get (...) leaves us with a $6 bill to pay before we have any revenue, and that makes one card = 600 USD ? Sortof. The parts cost

Re: [Open-graphics] Announcement: Finally ready to announce OGD1 pre-orders

2008-04-12 Thread Dieter
- OGD1 is for hardware hackers. This isn't just about graphics. If all you wanted was a graphics card that worked with Free Software, we've had that for a long time with Matrox, for some time with Intel, and most recently and significantly with ATI. And VIA has very recently (announced on

Re: [Open-graphics] Announcement: Finally ready to announce OGD1 pre-orders

2008-04-12 Thread Russell Shaw
Dieter wrote: - OGD1 is for hardware hackers. This isn't just about graphics. If all you wanted was a graphics card that worked with Free Software, we've had that for a long time with Matrox, for some time with Intel, and most recently and significantly with ATI. And VIA has very recently

[Open-graphics] Announcement: Finally ready to announce OGD1 pre-orders

2008-04-11 Thread Timothy Normand Miller
The OGD1 design has actually been finished for a couple of months now. In that time, we've been chasing a chick-and-egg problem. We can take all the orders we want, but there's as much as an 8-week lead time between when we place our order for 100 boards and when we get them so that we can test

Re: [Open-graphics] Announcement: Finally ready to announce OGD1 pre-orders

2008-04-11 Thread zhengyi
From: Timothy Normand Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Open-graphics] Announcement: Finally ready to announce OGD1 pre-orders Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:34:42 -0400 Good News, Congratulations!! Althrough the price is high, this product will be written in the history. I think the main market

Re: [Open-graphics] Announcement: Finally ready to announce OGD1 pre-orders

2008-04-11 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
Timothy Normand Miller wrote: time between when we place our order for 100 boards and when we get (...) leaves us with a $6 bill to pay before we have any revenue, and that makes one card = 600 USD ? - The retail price is $1500, but the first 100 pre-orders will get a $100 discount.

Re: [Open-graphics] Announcement: Finally ready to announce OGD1 pre-orders

2008-04-11 Thread André Pouliot
Raphaël Jacquot wrote: Timothy Normand Miller wrote: time between when we place our order for 100 boards and when we get (...) leaves us with a $6 bill to pay before we have any revenue, and that makes one card = 600 USD ? - The retail price is $1500, but the first 100 pre-orders