[Server-sky] cathing up

[Michael Turner]

> For hardware, have y'all looked at forming a makerspace ?

Thinsats won't be makerspace projects. They'll require advanced IC fab
facilities. Perhaps some prototyping can be done in existing
makerspaces.

I'm trying to coordinate the first Japan-only production of KickSat
Sprites , which are thinsat-like but still (being surface-mount PCBs)
are still well short of chip-level fab. I tried to drum up interest at
a makerspace in Tokyo. The fit wasn't very good. The spirit of
makerspaces seems to align with a rather anarchic and sometimes
retro-tech approach. Server Sky is large-scale network
advanced-technology architecture, a Big Telecom domain. If
hackerspaces they can't get into working with Sprites, it's hard to
see how they'd get into thinsats.

As for funding ... venture capitalists tend to ask for a
four-years-or-less path to profit. I don't see any horizon so near in
the case of Server Sky. There is incredible public-good "profit"
potential in the concept, but the investment community doesn't fund
megaprojects on the basis of public good. Some large companies with
big labs /might/ fund some advanced research and development however,
in hopes that governments will see the public-good case.

Regards,
Michael Turner

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On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Charles Radley <cfrjlr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/20/2013 12:46 PM, Jonathan "Duke" Leto wrote:
>> 5) We need help with funding. If you want to help with that or if you
>> know of people that would help fund the software and/or hardware
>> required for this project, please put them in touch.
>>
>>
>
> For software, have y'all looked at github  ?
>
> For hardware, have y'all looked at forming a makerspace ?
>
> (I know of one maker-space in Portland called ADX , I went to their
> annual party)
>
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