> 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
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> USB display
>
http://www.cartft.com/catalog/il/1057
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> carPC site (german):
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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=a...
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> This is unrelated but there are always people who build their own :-)
>
> Lothar
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