Can we crowd fund elinux.org while we're at it ;) On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Jason Kridner <[email protected]> wrote: > TI pays my salary too, but you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone at TI > that knows what I'm doing day-to-day in relation to Beagle. TI > continues to pay our salaries as Beagle helps people use TI chips, but > my manager has 0 input on the direction of BeagleBoard.org----not that > we'd necessarily want to upset TI. Would be interesting to crowd-fund > Gerald's salary for the 100+ hours a week he spends supporting people > on Beagle. Be generous folks! ;-) > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Gerald Coley <[email protected]> wrote: >> The part that says does not TI invests $$$$ into the operation of >> BeagleBord.org other than some of my day job and none of my time I spend on >> it in my personal time and weekends, the other 80 hours of my work week. >> >> Gerald >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Micka <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> TI has nothing to do with beagleboard.org but Gerald Coley is a TI >>> Engineer ? >>> >>> >>> Which part I didn't understand ? >>> >>> >>> Micka, >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 5:44 PM, David Anders <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Venkat, >>>> >>>> >>>> On Monday, March 17, 2014 4:36:42 PM UTC-5, Venkat Bommakanti wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Monday, March 17, 2014 7:23:20 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ... I would have no problem paying $75 for this board if we could >>>>>>> guarantee availibility and continued support (ie being able to stay in >>>>>>> business).... >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Have a feeling, even at an hiked up unit price of $75, the hoarders will >>>>> gobble them up in large #s, and pass the extra cost on to their customers >>>>> - >>>>> after all, the free market price would also be $75. I doubt TI could >>>>> guarantee supplies even at that price - unless something is done to >>>>> prevent >>>>> productizers from bulk-ordering huge quantities. >>>>> >>>>> TI supposedly released this board as a "community product" and should >>>>> try and pursue that goal and not just give up that easy. By hiking the >>>>> price >>>>> to say $55/60, and through beaglebone.org, TI can allow for the purchase >>>>> of >>>>> just a couple of boards to a given shipping address, it can be done since >>>>> the extra cost could be used to support this option... Many MIR promoters >>>>> do >>>>> that today, not entirely impossible (even $60 ARM quad-core based board >>>>> manufactures do it - 1 per forum member/acct). So beagleboard can make it >>>>> say 2 or 3 or some reasonable small #. The hoarders can always buy from >>>>> those other distributors - whose stock-notification scheme is a mere joke. >>>>> 10mins into getting an email - they are back to 0-stock. >>>>> >>>> >>>> just a clarification here: TI has nothing to do with beagleboard.org >>>> other than sell circuitco the processors to be used on beagleboard.org >>>> products >>>> >>>> http://beagleboard.org/about >>>> >>>> Dave >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Gerald, >>>>> >>>>> Pl. figure out a reasonably affordable scheme for the community and >>>>> another for market-driven scene, where folks are building products using >>>>> these, against all (practically legally non-enforceable) warnings. The >>>>> entire learning/maker community, imho, is being heavily penalized, for the >>>>> actions of a few hoarders. >>>>> >>>>> thanks. >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >>>> --- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "BeagleBoard" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "BeagleBoard" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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