Hi Luke, On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 05:30:47PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > at some point i'll need an address and tel no and name for a courier, > the name on the page is just to get an idea of numbers and also > preferably put how you can be contacted (email address) if it's not > obvious
understood. I'll produce a list of hackers and contact info. > eek! that's quite a lot, but with something like... i forget exactly > how many but i believe it's like... 200 or so parabola cards, it's > probably a good idea. also understood. I will make sure that we only request the cards we actually need. I will talk to the maintainers and make sure they are all in the loop. I am confident we can get this number down a bit. > bear in mind that the prototypes are like of the order of $USD *200 > to 250 each*, and also that courier costs as well as the prototype > production costs eat into the budget which is already getting tight, > the less amount of money that comes out of that budget the more is > available to help the project succeed. so i leave it up to you to > decide. also understood. I will try and source some budget so that parabole does not produce any unnecessary costs. > one thing: whatever happens, please do *not* just let the Cards sit > on shelves once you are done with them. if you're not going to use > them, *please find a home for them* and ask people to respect the same > thing. the idea is that these Cards have an ongoing recycled lifespan > until they literally fall apart, as they're part of an "Eco-Conscious" > angle of Computing Appliance Reuse. don't worry, I have literally dozens of projects in mind with those cards ;) > couple weeks for the 2.7.4 revisions, that'll be QTY 10 which i'll > test out. ETAs during pre-production testing phases... you just > *cannot* give *any* guarantees whatsoever. allright, thanks for the info Luke, I will talk to our arm team again, make sure that everyone understands the things you told me, and then get back to you with a number, and then we will wait patiently for the cards to hit :) thank you all for the awesome work you are doing! Best, -Andreas -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ my GPG Public Key: https://files.grapentin.org/.gpg/public.key ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
