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Raspberry Pi announcement on Wed 29th Feb at 6am GMT

28 points by paulofisch 15y ago

finnw 15y ago
Curious - if the announcement is going to be "the store is now open" why don't they just say now "the store will be open on Wednesday at 6am?"
- Jrsmith 15y ago
  There are multiple replies to tweets asking this same question, all of which cite "arcane contract requirements" as to blame for the secrecy.
  - westbywest 15y ago
    They very likely have contract stipulations with suppliers / distributors / fulfillment service preventing Raspberry from committing to product availability at certain datetime, before said suppliers are indeed ready to go.
- paulofisch 15y ago
  From the Raspi Twitter "not allowed to say (arcane contractual stuff)"
hinathan 15y ago
I'm really looking forward to these shipping. The combination of high-quality graphics and networking will make it easy to build lightweight graphic displays and integrations with other physical devices. I'm thinking an HDMI dongle for making displays like Panic built ( http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/ http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/ ) but self-contained and configured from the cloud.
djhworld 15y ago
The website is going to buckle under the pressure unfortunately :( Really looking forward to getting my hands on one though, although I doubt I'll be quick enough to snap one up from the first batch
- paulofisch 15y ago
  Plans are in place to make the website and announcement, etc accessible under load.
- westbywest 15y ago
  They did also put out a call for mirrors recently for their OS image download. Possibly part of that effort went to distributing load for the shopping cart app. http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/683 http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/683
sad 15y ago
2/29 is a good date. 3/14 would have been much more in tune with the Raspberry Pi name.
- paulofisch 15y ago
  That would be pretty damn cool. If it weren't for the army of geeks with internet pitchforks :-)
fr0sty 15y ago
Does anyone know how they are planning to sell off the first batch? If they do anything besides some manner of dutch auction they will be leaving a lot of money on the table for enterprising folks to pick up by reselling them on eBay.
- paulofisch 15y ago
  Between the one-per-person limit for the first batch and moving to rolling production fairly quickly, the eBay inflation factor should be cut to a minimum. The first batch of 10000 Model B's will be sold on a first-come-first-served basis.

28 points by paulofisch 15y ago

finnw 15y ago

Curious - if the announcement is going to be "the store is now open" why don't they just say now "the store will be open on Wednesday at 6am?"

Jrsmith 15y ago
There are multiple replies to tweets asking this same question, all of which cite "arcane contract requirements" as to blame for the secrecy.
- westbywest 15y ago
  They very likely have contract stipulations with suppliers / distributors / fulfillment service preventing Raspberry from committing to product availability at certain datetime, before said suppliers are indeed ready to go.
paulofisch 15y ago
From the Raspi Twitter "not allowed to say (arcane contractual stuff)"

hinathan 15y ago

I'm really looking forward to these shipping. The combination of high-quality graphics and networking will make it easy to build lightweight graphic displays and integrations with other physical devices. I'm thinking an HDMI dongle for making displays like Panic built ( http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/ http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/ ) but self-contained and configured from the cloud.

djhworld 15y ago

The website is going to buckle under the pressure unfortunately :( Really looking forward to getting my hands on one though, although I doubt I'll be quick enough to snap one up from the first batch

paulofisch 15y ago
Plans are in place to make the website and announcement, etc accessible under load.
westbywest 15y ago
They did also put out a call for mirrors recently for their OS image download. Possibly part of that effort went to distributing load for the shopping cart app. http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/683 http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/683

sad 15y ago

2/29 is a good date. 3/14 would have been much more in tune with the Raspberry Pi name.

paulofisch 15y ago
That would be pretty damn cool. If it weren't for the army of geeks with internet pitchforks :-)

fr0sty 15y ago

Does anyone know how they are planning to sell off the first batch? If they do anything besides some manner of dutch auction they will be leaving a lot of money on the table for enterprising folks to pick up by reselling them on eBay.

paulofisch 15y ago
Between the one-per-person limit for the first batch and moving to rolling production fairly quickly, the eBay inflation factor should be cut to a minimum. The first batch of 10000 Model B's will be sold on a first-come-first-served basis.