On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 5:22 AM, Alejandro Mery <
am...@geeks.cl> wrote:
> On 28 September 2012 11:19, István Nagy <
nistv...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> +1 for moving this project to Kickstarter :) It would be awesome!
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> even if crowdfunding is a nice idea, kickstarter in particular is
> US-only, and this project is chinese. pre-ordering or crowdfunding
One member of the Kickstarter team has to be a US citizen. That
requirement has something to do with credit card processing laws and
preventing Kickstarter from being used for laundrying drug money.
Any one can buy from Kickstarter. The rest of the team can be from
anywhere too. Your company does not have to be US based, you just have
to have one US owner.
However, CubieBoard is only suitable in its current form for highly
technical people. You'd end up with a lot of unhappy Kickstarter
customers if you did it now. To minimize problems the kernel needs to
be in good enough shape that it is checked into mainline. Same for
Android or debian/ubuntu builds.
> will only work if the chosen service does smooth and inexpensive
> payments to small entrepreneurs in mainland China.
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