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[Steve Mosher]

Thanks Lothar.

   I think Dr N and I will have some fruitful discussions on how to 
start this. I'll contribute my time and experience as I am able to to 
get this
going.

Lothar Behrens wrote:
> Am 05.04.2009 um 21:00 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller:
> 
>> Hi Lothar, Jörg, Sean, Steve, and all others who are interested in a  
>> future GTA03,
>>
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> * funding of the project organization (e.g. we can set up a  
>> community funds or society or association or however the legal form  
>> has to be choosen). Funding levels could start at 5€ per year for  
>> students and go upwards for individuals and companies. And special  
>> services (e.g. managing the production of 100 customized units)  
>> could even provide more funding for the organization.
> 
> And indeed we fund with the purchase of our phones. I mostly played  
> with the navit package and done some bug reports. It's a hobby and  
> thus it would
> also move someone to fund in comunity sub projects when there is a way  
> of hand on soldering and the like.
> 
> Also I played with the CAD files, wrote a script to convert some of  
> them, that costs me about 1 day. It is a fund. The idea behind that  
> was to make the CAD
> files available in more formats and thus propably push private case  
> mods.
> 
>>
>> A word to all those who think Hardware can not be developed by a  
>> community should take a look at:
>>
>> 	http://www.amsat.org/
>>
>> Building, launching and operating not only 1 but approx. 50  
>> satellites in the past 30 years is definitively more complex than  
>> building an open smartphone.
> 
> Hmm. Then open source projects were not the first movements in the  
> spirit of openess :-)
> 
> This is a great sample.
> 
> Here are some links about mobile equipment resellers:
> 
> TFT displays:
> http://www.cartft.com/catalog/gl/111
> 
> USB display
> http://www.cartft.com/catalog/il/1057
> 
> carPC site (german):
> http://www.car-pc.info/
> 
> A link to books about building car PC's (linked in the carPC site):
> http://www.amazon.de/dp/0071468269?tag=cartftcom-21&camp=1410&creative=6378&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0071468269&adid=044B8W2G03ATQDZ5ECZK&
> 
> This is unrelated but there are always people who build their own :-)
> 
> Lothar
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