Once we find all of our cheap components and our open source software, whatever these might be, how will our system be built for mass distrobution. For example, if we have 1000 people in africa who want our system, who is going to put these systems together... us? Are we going to pay some company to assemble it? Similarly, how will the software be installed once the hardware is assembled? I imagine that this part of the project, I think it would be called the distrobution aspect of our system, will need to be figured out.
<br><br>My idea is this, we find the component hardware that we can buy in any quantity online or from all the individual companys, such as the keyboard and the mobo and the memory and proc etc. For all of these we can find the cheapest yet most powerful combination that exists in the commercial market, but not worry about doing assembly ourselves, but instead create a very detailed manual for assembling the box yourself. So the person who needs the system, orders all of the parts themselves, but quickly and easily because we have the parts all tabulated and instructions on ordering and shipping and all of that. We could maybe even have different options in components that we have found based on how much they can spend?
<br><br>Doing this would require users to either be somehwat handy, or we would need a badass manual for assembling the system...<br><br>Once they do this we could have a bootable thumbdrive to hold the linux distrobution and whatever software package we come up with, like word proc and spreadsheet and drivers for the hardware. I'm not sure how we would get them the thumbdrive, maybe this is what we do the inhouse assembly on. Or we could do something where they "rent" a thumbdrive" kind of like netflix, no late fees just charge for each month until they send it back. This way they don't foot the cost of buying the flash drive, they dont have to download the package from an already working computer/internet connection, they don't actually have to have an internet connection, and they don't have to burn a cd or even have a cd-rom drive.
<br><br>Please feel free to correct me on anything here it's just some initial thoughts that I figured I'd share with the group.<br><br>David H.<br><br><br>