On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Andreas Grapentin andreas@grapentin.org wrote:
any takers please put alias down here so i get a quick idea of numbers http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/ "
hi, sorry andreas, my mailer decided to move all arm-netbooks messages to a folder without my consent after i changed the name of the list a couple of days ago. bit of an "aiyaaa" moment, so thank you to everyone who's been carrying on the conversation!
This looks very promising. I need to ask a couple more questions:
sure
Could parabola as a whole go into that list, with a to-be-determined number of cards, or would we need to name the individual hackers?
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
We have at least three people working on the arm port, maybe more. Would asking for ~5 cards still be in the right ballpark?
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.
Would the prototypes be lent to us? donated? sold?
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.
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.
Is there an ETA?
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.
if this was the "production" phase then it would be a totally different matter: there would be a set schedule (because the factory has to slot everything in).
l.