Ubuntu Edge and Open Hardware

[Paul Boddie]

Hello,

Suspecting that we all like to keep up-to-date with things like new hardware 
initiatives, how people are raising funds to make their hardware, and so on, I 
suppose it's worth referring to the recently announced Ubuntu Edge campaign. 
For those of us interested in open hardware and not merely a parade of new 
gadgets, I tried to formulate some opinions about this topic in the following 
article:

Ubuntu Edge: Making Things Even Harder for Open Hardware?
https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=366

What interests me more than how easily people can raise money for things - in 
this case, something which has a substantial lack of specific details - is the 
level of collaboration between open hardware projects. Is there any way 
existing projects can work more effectively together or are these projects so 
fundamentally incompatible that there really is only limited potential for 
collaboration?

Anyway, I'll let you get back to your scheduled Qi-Hardware programming...

Paul