Raspberry Pi Stock

Hi frednginger,

I'm not aware of any specific timeframe, but we are working very closely with Raspberry Pi to ensure we can meet the demand as soon as possible. If you haven’t been able to pre-order, register your interest so we can let you know as soon as you can order again and keep you updated with the latest on availability. 

In the meantime, we hope that you find element14 Community a fun place to hangout and talk about Raspberry Pi with your fellow enthusiasts!

Thanks!

Nicole, element14 Community Manager

I understand that therre has been huge demand for the Pi but, along with many others, I expressed interest through Pi's own site last year and feel quite let down - it's as if we've been brushed aside by the tide of media hype. Petulent I know but I'm just being honest. Having got that off my chest, I appreciate it isn't the fault of Element14.

The main reason I have followed the progress of the Raspberry Pi for all this time is that I could see the potential as a teaching tool. I teach computing to 16-19 year olds (technical support and developers) and wanted to purchase class sets for my students to use. Correct me if I'm wrong but, I understood that teaching in schools and colleges was one of the main reasons for developing them? It appears that most of the stocks have been sold in a media stampede in single units. So what about schools and colleges? Is there a separate arena for those of us in education to buy Pis for teaching? With the government push for young people to develop skills such as programming and app development, I would have thought that some priority would have been given to education.

Are you sure you have been following this?

This first release is aimed at geeks and nerds. The Pi has no casing, there is little or no documentation and even the people producing the operating systems are just about one page ahead of the rest of us.

The idea is that developers will have a really good thrash at working out what the Pi can do, producing, documentation, guides, etc, so that later in the year a proper education release can be made.

i know the Pi site is down at the moment but when it is back have a look on the forum at the education section.

Even though www.raspberrypi.org is currently suspended, you can get a lot of information about educational plans at the Wiki: http://elinux.org/RaspberryPiBoard and http://elinux.org/Rpi_Education.  This is mostly work in progress and work planned, but there is a lot of enthusiasm and motivation for educational applications.

Even though www.raspberrypi.org is currently suspended, you can get a lot of information about educational plans at the Wiki: http://elinux.org/RaspberryPiBoard and http://elinux.org/Rpi_Education.  This is mostly work in progress and work planned, but there is a lot of enthusiasm and motivation for educational applications.