Parallella reached $750k funding goal
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Parallella reached $750k funding goal
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Re: Parallella reached $750k funding goal
#2Oh good! I've posted about the project on HN a couple of times, but being $150k short of the goal yesterday with only 24 hours to go I wasn't optimistic.
Re: Parallella reached $750k funding goal
#3Looking forward to getting my Epiphany next year. What an exciting time to be alive.
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#4Congratulations. I was a doubter in the first thread on Parallela, but I'm very impressed and happy that you guys achieved your goal.
I'd love to hear more about your plans to build a community around the boards now. I'm working on building a community around a yet unreleased but announced open source project myself (http://famo.us/) and I'm in the early stages of planning everything.
Check out The Art of Community by Jono Bacon, the guy who was responsible for the Ubuntu community. That book has a lot of good stuff.
Re: Parallella reached $750k funding goal
#5I just cancelled my pledge, feel free to get that (it's a $99 level pledge)
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#6I don't mind posting here and saying how wrong I was. Because on the original post, I said for sure it wouldn't be funded.
To show that I have sufficiently eaten crow, I felt I should make this post and pledge $99 + $20 (for a case) to them. And so I have.
EDIT: Clever use of the ?foolhn tag. I was going to post the Kickstarter link to HN as penance for my doubting Thomas ways but I've never submitted anything, and when I tried, I got a dupe check, so I didn't bother.
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#7Do we know the specifics of the final funding? In the discussion yesterday there were good comments flying around about founders maxing out credit cards, general trends of most funding being in the first 72 and last 24 hours of a Kickstarter campaign, and various other interesting arguments (not all optimistic). I'd be curious what it came down to in the end.
Re: Parallella reached $750k funding goal
#8Congratulations. I was a doubter in the first thread on Parallela, but I'm very impressed and happy that you guys achieved your goal. I'd love to hear more about your plans to build a community around the boards now. I'm working on building a community around a yet unreleased but announced open source project myself ( http://famo.us/ ) and I'm in the early stages of planning everything. Check out The Art of Community…
Building the community will be the success or failure of this project. We've seen it with the Raspberry Pi and (to some extent) Ubuntu. They aren't the best products in their field (IMHO; I've not made anything better), but they have the best community. These days that means more than a mail list; it's the forum and Q&A (stack exchange) sites as well.
Dear Founders, please please set up a Q&A site. They are much more effective than forums.
Re: Parallella reached $750k funding goal
#9Do we know the specifics of the final funding? In the discussion yesterday there were good comments flying around about founders maxing out credit cards, general trends of most funding being in the first 72 and last 24 hours of a Kickstarter campaign, and various other interesting arguments (not all optimistic). I'd be curious what it came down to in the end.
here are two links that show the project's progress during its kickstarter life:
http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-super... http://canhekick.it/project/5064d31d8f647c24e5ad60d0
Re: Parallella reached $750k funding goal
#10Do we know the specifics of the final funding? In the discussion yesterday there were good comments flying around about founders maxing out credit cards, general trends of most funding being in the first 72 and last 24 hours of a Kickstarter campaign, and various other interesting arguments (not all optimistic). I'd be curious what it came down to in the end.
here are two links that show the project's progress during its kickstarter life: http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-super... http://canhekick.it/project/5064d31d8f647c24e5ad60d0
Thank you, that's really cool.
EDIT: It answers one of {how, what} but not the other. Anyone got any more?