Ya Nanonote
Werner Almesberger
werner at almesberger.net
Wed Feb 27 08:14:07 EST 2013
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
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