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→A Slice of Raspberry Pi - Eben Upton
I attended this presentation partially because of a recommendation of a friend and partially because compared to many of the other talks, the focus for the presentation wasn't on open source. It focused more on what the product was and what the purpose of Raspberry Pi was. While Eben did talk about what contributions the open source community has given his project, for which he was thankful for, it was not the major focus. This was what made the talk so different and so memorable for me. Well, that and the presenter had a British accent, which was also very different from the majority of speakers I listened to during the event.
There are already boards similar to Raspberry Pi in existence already, such as the BeagleBoard, PandaBoard, and the OLPC. However the main difference is the attempted price point Raspberry Pi is aiming to hit. Upon retail Raspberry Pi units will retail between $25 to $35 depending on the configuration of the board. Raspberry Pi was spurred on by the experience Eben had when he was on the board of admissions to Cambridge's computer science department. He explained that when he applied to the program, it was a given that the applicants new several languages and had the ability to program some assembly. Now, he lamentshow far the bar has fallen. He talks about how now "having built a webpage" was considered good enough for consideration. This is a trend I can definitely identify with.
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