Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Just in case not everybody saw this on Slashdot already:

    http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge

    "The Ubuntu Edge is the next generation of personal computing:
     smartphone and desktop PC in one state-of-the-art device."

~$800 gets you one, if the fundraiser meets its goal of $32-million
in 30 days. They've already raised just over $7-million in 7 days;
if they can keep up that momentum, maybe they /can/ actually
meet the goal.

I've been trying to allocate about the same portion of my budget to
fund a similar project that's been underway by a perhaps smaller
(certainly less visible) team:

    http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/
    http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA04

_Really_ hard to fund them both. Maybe I should decide already.
I keep asking Nikolaus to just sell me a $100 T-shirt so that I can
afford to fund his GTA04 project. I can certainly afford to contribute
_something_ to this Edge fundraiser. It's nice that they give that
option; I wish they were giving away T-shirts as rewards, though....

-- 
"'tis an ill wind that blows no minds."