Kosa a écrit : > Werner Almesberger escribió: >> Álvaro Lopes wrote: >>> Unless we find some more sponsors. Can we ? >> If you have suitable contacts, please try. I know of some sponsors >> for this sort of projects, but they tend to move very little money. >> >> At the end of the day, I have to ask myself if, say, a few hundred >> USD would really make all that much of a difference, and if it would >> be worth spending several days on negotiations, writing "thank you" >> letters, and such, instead of working on technical issues. > > Is it writing to ask for donations to the commuunity list an option? I > think there are lots of folks who might want to fund this effort. Some > of us know nothing about HW development, so getting a prototype is not a > good idea, but we could give some money to help you getting yours. > > I could wirte the thank you letter :) > > Kosa > > - Un mundo mejor es posible - > > _______________________________________________ > gta02-core mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/gta02-core
Hey, this is a good idea ! I would not be able to afford a testing board at 500 euro (much less 1000 !), but I can spend some time creating a site for donations (never did this, but it should not be so hard, and I have a server available) I would be OK to donate, just to see the project go on, becouse I think it is very important to have this "base design" available, and I'm interrested in using such a base design one day, to bring some of my ideas to life. I have difficulties at performing reviews these times, I have to much work, and each time I try to start again, I have some other stuff to fix to have everything running (fped mainly)) I hope I'll be able to in a near future, but I see no free time in the next 5 days Though I had a review with a customer and there was someone who is doing 3D design, I sent him the Openmoko 3D files and he will send me quotations for having some made, so we can have an idea at how much would cost a case (made in France, so this may be a maximum, and would certainly be cheaper in many other places). He told me there are to possible technologies to have just a few made in a not too expensive way: Stereolithography and ... I do not remember the other one (Sintering ?). But he does not know what would be the long-term quality of such cases. +++ Have fun. -- Nathaël PAJANI ED3L - Etude et Développement - Linux et Logiciels Libres Internet : http://www.ed3l.fr _______________________________________________ gta02-core mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/gta02-core
