Rafael Ignacio Zurita wrote: > What about something like a kickstart project to solve the money problem?
We had some discussions about how to finance possible future activities in the Qi-Hardware universe not too long ago. From them, I didn't get the impression that people felt their wallet was burning a hole into their pockets :) In other words, the appeal of the Qi-Hardware project and the Nanonote platform seems to have largely faded, and any hypothetical future attempt would have to start from near-zero. Things that speak against Kickstarter are also that: - a Ya would require a substantial R&D effort, while Kickstarter is all about production of already finished designs. (There are other crowdfunding platforms that are more flexible, though.) - the natural choice would have been for Sharism to be in charge of the project, but Wolfgang strongly dislikes community pre-financing. - Kickstarter are very US-centric. - it may not be possible to accurately predict the final per device cost and/or feature set. For example, final component availablity and pricing and also manufacturing cost can only be determined when you actually negotiate an order. - since Kickstarter and such don't have progressive funding, you need a team that can commit to be available until the funding succeeds and money becomes available, and that can take the risk of the funding not succeeding. > Money, skilled people (you need money for them) and time I guess. If you have enough money, you can solve almost every problem ;-) - Werner _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
