There was a Status Update this morning from Qamarina Noor which was a polite request for funding via the GoGetFunding website - I flagged it as spam, mainly because this member had not contributed anything prior to Element14. Normally that would have been the end, but in this case I have decided to write a short blog for a couple of reasons:
There are thousands of good causes and I feel as a community we support them via applying technology/innovation and ideas rather than direct monetary funding. For anyone in a similar position I would suggest a better route would be to approach the E14 support team to see if Farnell/Newark/Avnet would sponsor your event by providing some equipment/kits in return for some decent feedback and advertising.
The status update by Qamarina did however include an interesting list of project titles and which I feel the E14 community would like to see, and so I have saved and printed it here:
[ I could not verify the profile picture against those on the drop down list, and have not linked to the Qamarina_Noor that appeared as it may not be the same person: the original profile for the update was aish ]
Rod