Profitable for non-profits is a project that succeeds in interesting the donors who fund the organization, or if the sales produce enough profit. The main difference between for-profits and non-profits is that the non-profits cannot retain earnings for reinvestment, so they have to get rid of profits by paying board members and executives or spending on capital equipment. Some non-profits are running over with money that they have to spend. If one of those is around, get them interested. Have fun, David On May 28, 2016 9:13 AM, "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm not concerned whether or not it's sufficfiently profitable for > commercial business. There are plenty of nonprofits that would take this > up, if the value could be demonstrated. > > The forthcoming approx $500 braille device coming from APH is an > example. It will also be a note taker, apparently. > > > Janina > > Gregory Nowak writes: > > On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 03:36:41AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > This is a pretty sound idea, imo. If we had a box with speakers, > braille > > > keyboard, basic other IO like RJ45, audio, etc., but could simply swap > > > in mb from time to time to pick up on enhanced cpu, ram, etc., wouldn't > > > that be pretty future proof? > > > > Yup, but I can only see a nonprofit or an individual creating such an > > option. No for profit company would go for it. Can you imagine the > > loss in revenue if in order to upgrade all a user had to do is to > > replace the mobo on their own? Let's take it further. What if the > > entire thing including case and hardware could be printed on a 3d > > printer, and the stl files were freely available? Keep the cost of the > > entire thing down to $200 maybe $300 per unit. Allow a bit more if the > > user wanted a braille display, maybe those could be 3d printed some > > day too. I wonder if someone started something like that on > > kickstarter, if it would take off? > > > > Greg > > > > > > -- > > web site: http://www.gregn.net > > gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc > > skype: gregn1 > > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your > contacts. > > > > -- > > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@xxxxxx > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 > sip:janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Email: janina@xxxxxxxxxxx > > Linux Foundation Fellow > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
