element 14 for the win

Yep. Yep. If they can get boards to people without delays significantly beyond what they say when you pre-order this could really bring a lot of attention here. If they tick people off by adding weeks to delivery, well...

Yes just registered myself, looking forward to getting my hands on one of these, pleased that such an active group is taking shape here

Thanks for the kind words and we're glad you're all here enjoying the group!    Let us know if there's anything we can do to help make it better for you!

Nicole, element14 Community Manager

Really wanting to get a hold of a few of these boards...It would really be Great to go to work and see just what we all as a group can push out off this lil' Pi....3-4 weeks Cant wait Yah... BRING IT !!!

Well Farnell.com (Which I think is most countries other than USA) was down yesterday for much much longer than RS! However RS are only taking 'I'm interested' registrations, but I'm told people will be offered the opportunity in the order that they registered. So I'm hoping to have one delivered by RS quicker than Farnell (Element14) have given me as I regeistered there earlier.

Yes, element14 for the win. And Nicole, I would like to add that I talked to an element14 rep on the phone yesterday evening about the Pi, and despite what I'm sure was a hellish day for him and all other employees there, he was helpful, friendly, and professional. I wish I could remember his name, he deserves serious kudos.

Thanks gregwaters for letting us know!  I'm glad you had a good experience and I'll be sure to pass your comments along to our team here.

Nicole 

Element14 and Farnell certainly did very much better than their commercial competitor, but to be fair, this launch was one that the Raspberry Pi Foundation will want to forget as soon as possible.  I wrote up a review of the day's painful events on G+ here:

https://plus.google.com/117463006296185212823/posts/RHZMDDKs3V5

I think what's important now is that the Foundation recognizes that things didn't go as planned, learns from its mistakes, and moves rapidly into Phase 2 to put this new-found industrial muscle to work.  Many hundreds of thousands of devices are needed even now in this initial hobbiest / development phase, and millions more once Rpi hits the educational bigtime.  There is much work to be done by all three partners.

And from our community end there is much work to be done as well, turning the Rpi ecosystem into something vibrant, innovative, educational, and inspiring.  But for that we need boards. :-)

Morgaine.

"important now is that the Foundation recognizes that things didn't go as planned, learns from its mistakes" Well the only significant mistake the foundation made was to believe Farnell (E14) and to a lesser extent RS when they said there servers could cope with the rush!

Now that the sourcing of components, manufacturing, distributuion and finance have largely been off loaded they can concentrate much better on the fundamental aims of the charity.

If the Foundation had realised say six months ago the massive interest and demand, yes they could have done things better, but the project gradually snowballed and has become something of a monster to handle.

I now predict sales of 1,000,000 this year

Remember all* the members of the foundation are doing everything in their spare time.

*If I'm correct Liz may now be an employee, but she has been putting in 16 hour days 7 days a week, well above and behond the call of duty. I'm glad to see she has taken a break from twitter and the forums, for her sake and ours in the longer term.

Nicole

I have to say that NZ.Element14 certainly did deliver unlike the other crowd. (albeit buckling a lot)

Not everyone was going to get one on Day1, and I take my hat off to the RaspberryPi crew, and Element14 for delivering a limited resource.

I suggest you keep making this community a repository of information, along with links to the various parts.....but don't splatter the community with non related ads or links.

You'll then find people keep coming back to here.

Here in NZ most of your prices are competitive (some are a bit way off) and people will always shop around, so keep it real.

The service we receive (via the other island called Australia) from Element14 is fantastic.

Judging by the launch and the pricing, I think there are bigger things to come, so I say continue to grow the product, and you might find the next startup knocking on your door.

Mark