Anelok: business poll results

[Werner Almesberger]

Three weeks ago, Dave and I asked for feedback on your preferences
for community-based financing of the Anelok project, specifically
for the remaining R&D work and then moving it towards production.

http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/pipermail/discussion/2015-July/010931.html

First of all, thanks to all who have responded to the poll !

The responses we received showed a high degree of generosity (all
offered donations), but the total amount offered was very small,
less than 1% of what we would need to see this through R&D.

Unfortunately, the idea of investing into the project (with a
corresponding participation in revenue) does not seem to have much
appeal - at least nobody considered that option.

This means that we will need to find a "plan B" to fund the next
stage of development.

A kickstarter style campaign may be an option, but we had hoped to
reach a more polished prototype beforehand. Any ideas would be
welcome !

I'll pitch Anelok at the CCCamp, but this is more a place for
finding developers (which we need, too) than investors.

- Werner

[Bas Wijnen]

Post by Werner Almesberger
First of all, thanks to all who have responded to the poll !

Sorry I didn't; I was busy and didn't get to it yet. You probably wouldn't
have liked my answer anyway. :-p I like this project to see how you do things,
but I'm not all that interested in the actual result. (And therefore, I don't
feel like spending a lot of money on it.)

Post by Werner Almesberger
The responses we received showed a high degree of generosity (all
offered donations), but the total amount offered was very small,
less than 1% of what we would need to see this through R&D.
Unfortunately, the idea of investing into the project (with a
corresponding participation in revenue) does not seem to have much
appeal - at least nobody considered that option.
This means that we will need to find a "plan B" to fund the next
stage of development.
I'll pitch Anelok at the CCCamp, but this is more a place for
finding developers (which we need, too) than investors.

I'm not surprised, and I think this list is filled with the same type of
people. I have no idea where to find investors; I try to avoid those kind of
people when I can. :-p

Post by Werner Almesberger
A kickstarter style campaign may be an option, but we had hoped to
reach a more polished prototype beforehand. Any ideas would be
welcome !

I agree that a more polished version would greatly help such a campaign. I
have no ideas about how to get there...

Thanks,
Bas

[Paul Boddie]

Post by Bas Wijnen

Post by Werner Almesberger
This means that we will need to find a "plan B" to fund the next
stage of development.
I'll pitch Anelok at the CCCamp, but this is more a place for
finding developers (which we need, too) than investors.

I'm not surprised, and I think this list is filled with the same type of
people. I have no idea where to find investors; I try to avoid those kind
of people when I can. :-p

Indeed! Still, I happened to be reading the latest Mailpile blog article [1]
today and noticed that Bjarni refers to the Open Technology Fund [2]. They
seem to support a variety of projects [3], and Anelok does seem to be
substantially less vague than some of those listed.

One of those projects - Subgraph OS - may even be at the CCCamp, judging from
a tweet I saw, so you might even be able to meet funded individuals and be
able to peek behind their isometric architecture diagrams [4] - very fake
retro, a bit like Wired magazine circa 2003 - and anonymous-looking GitHub
presence [5].

Paul

[1] https://www.mailpile.is/blog/2015-08-10_Issue_Cleanup_Frenzy.html
[2] https://www.opentechfund.org/
[3] https://www.opentechfund.org/projects
[4] https://subgraph.com/sgos/graph/index.en.html
[5] https://github.com/subgraph