Hello world!
I'm very happy to inform that the Next Thing Co. hasshipped us a pack
of 50 C.H.I.P. computers to be given away at DebConf! What is the
C.H.I.P.? As their tagline says, it's the world's first US$9
computer. Further details:
https://nextthing.co/pages/chip
All in all, it's a nice small ARM single-board computer; I won't bore
you on this mail with tons of specs; suffice to say they are probably
the most open ARM system I've seen to date.
So, I agreed with Richard, our contact at the company (Cc:ed on this
mail) I would distribute the machines among the DebConf speakers
interested in one. Of course, not every DebConf speaker wants to
fiddle with an adorable tiny piece of beautiful engineering, so I'm
sure I'll have some spare computers to give out to other interested
DebConf attendees. We are supposed to receive the C.H.I.P.s by Monday
4; if you want to track the package shipment, the DHL tracking number
is 1209937606. Don't DDoS them too hard!
So, please do mail me telling why do you want one, what your projects
are with it. My conditions for this giveaway are:
- I will hand out the computers by Thursday 7.
- Preference goes to people giving a talk. I will "line up" requests
on two queues, "speaker" and "attendee", and will announce who gets
one in a mail to this list on the said date.
- With this in mind, I'll follow a strict "first come, first served".
To sign up for yours, please mail gwolf+chip@gwolf.org - I will
capture mail sent to that alias ONLY. Do not reply to all! Do not spam
the list! (unless you have any questions on this regard; for any
questions, I'll be happy to reply to all).
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