IRC log for #neo900 on 20131030

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11:21.23sunweaverhi all, I was just pointed to the neo900 project by a DD colleague.
11:21.36sunweaverI am a Debian Developer myself and I want to help!
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13:31.50DocScrutinizer05sunweaver: neo900 itself is strictly hardware. We nevertheless support and encourage porting of several OS/"distros" to our hw platform. one of them is the Fremantle Porting Task Force, which is linked to in
13:31.52DocScrutinizer05http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=91142
13:32.05DocScrutinizer05and is meeting in #maemo-ssu
13:33.23DocScrutinizer05~fptf
13:33.23infobotsomebody said fptf was the Fremantle Porting Task Force, see http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=91308
13:34.22sunweaverDocScrutinizer05: ok. thanks.
13:34.41sunweaverDocScrutinizer05: do you have boards available already that fit into the N900 case?
13:34.48DocScrutinizer05yw, thanks for supporting the project and related sister projects
13:35.04DocScrutinizer05no, we're at beginning of this enterprise
13:36.37DocScrutinizer05we plan to show first mech designs (no electrically working designs yet) at 30. Nov. - 1. Dec 2013: www.ohsw.org - Open Hard- and Software Workshop in Garching (Munich), Germany.
13:38.59DocScrutinizer05we're days late with starting our fundraiser, due to awkward taxation issues
13:41.29DocScrutinizer05aiui you can't avoid 19% VAT for donations. You however pay only 7% VAT for hardware shipped to EU, and nothing at all for hw shipped to outside EU, or sth like that. So it's pretty headache-inducing to get the VAT right for the donations that come from outside EU and count as rebate for the devices
13:43.09DocScrutinizer05I don't really grok all that stuff, I'm an EE not a clerk. But if I got that right, we might have to pay 2 times 19% VAT for devices in the end
13:43.18DocScrutinizer05if we mess up stuff
13:45.17DocScrutinizer05Since Nikolaus also is an engineer and no merchant or tax consultant, this turned out to get more cumbersome to sort out than we expected
13:48.02DocScrutinizer05anyway since Neo900 and N900 (and pandaboard and OpenPandora) are all pretty similar hw platforms, you could use any of those mentioned to develop and test an OS that's not using hw-specific closed blob drivers (like cmt_speech, NOLO)
13:49.38DocScrutinizer05that's pretty much what pali, freemangordon, fatphil and jonwil are about to do on #maemo-ssu right now, based on fremantle and using N900 to make a 3.12(?) kernel boot and run stock fremantle
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21:14.12JoHnYOMFG the fundraiser has started! :-)
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21:14.40hbibLet's hope that it will be sucessfull!
21:14.54sono=)
21:15.12sonopass the word on.
21:15.33sonoi get quite some interest from geeks.
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21:32.17JoHnYjust a note, when sending a SEPA bank transfer, there is no option to change the charging instructions to OUR, it's fixed to "SHA" (but it just means that the recipient pays whatever the fee he pays for any other incoming local bank transfer - i.e. usually nothing)
21:36.12JoHnYok order complete, money sent :-)
21:51.07AndrewX192it's open!
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21:55.02AndrewX192the word "specification" is misspelled on the homepage
21:55.53kolpJust wondering about the policies... If I donate, say, 3000€, will I receive 2x(discount+prototype)?
21:56.14kolpWhat if I donate 2x1500?
21:56.20kolpMaybe this should be made clear(er)
22:02.32DocScrutinizer05yeah, FUNDRAISER STARTED
22:03.15kolpOr... What if I donate 700 now and 800 later, will this count as 1500?
22:03.23kolp:)
22:03.36AndrewX192^ this
22:03.53DocScrutinizer05AndrewX192: please post the spelling of the typo
22:04.04AndrewX192See the full specifiaction draft for more details
22:04.55DocScrutinizer05kolp: when you want to donate 3k, I guess we will talk you thru the process live :-D
22:05.07DocScrutinizer05to make sure it's booked the way you want it to
22:05.37kolpHm, ok :)
22:05.57DocScrutinizer05baasically yes. You can donate 2* 1500 and thus receive 2 * proto and 2 * series
22:06.49DocScrutinizer05or you donate 3k and get 1 proto, one series, and a mentioning on our (yet to design) hall of fame page for the 1500 excess
22:07.54DocScrutinizer05we usually don't concatenate donations, though we don't expect so much traffic that we can't handle cases individually according to your intentions
22:09.57DocScrutinizer05so if you later on order two serial devices you absolutely will be able to get a 700+800 rebate on the total for 2 series devices. You however will NOT be entitled for a proto when you split your donation into two halves
22:10.31DocScrutinizer05(unless you talk to us about it, and all relevant guys agree that we can still do this)
22:11.33dos11AndrewX192: fixed, thanks!
22:11.42DocScrutinizer05initially we had a sentence explaining all this, but we tought it's too complex and the number of cases too low
22:11.55DocScrutinizer05hola´ dos1
22:12.33kolpMaybe you could mention that it's flexible for the bigger donations
22:12.54kolpAnd that people could contact you for details
22:16.14dos1hei DocScrutinizer05 ;)
22:17.32DocScrutinizer05kolp: good point
22:17.54DocScrutinizer05tbh we didn't even think of this ;-)
22:18.09DocScrutinizer05more than 1500, OMG!
22:18.15kolpHaha
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