Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

Joshua Judson Rosen rozzin at geekspace.com
Tue Jul 30 13:45:23 EDT 2013


FYI: $50+ sponsorship now gets you a T-shirt! Someone heard me!?

     http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge?c=activity

Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at geekspace.com> writes:
>
> 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....

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