how best to contact the foundation?

I did see that myself, and wonder why you would even admit that in a public forum.

I've said before, they *really* need someone who has at least read 'PR for Dummies' working for them.

well, they do have JamesH the diplomat.  Does that count?

In an attempt to soothe the feelings of the QtonPi folks who have been

waiting patiently since December, he wrote:

"You are still getting your Pi's ahead of a lot of people who are going to have to pay for them, and who have been in the queue longer than you have. Please consider that."

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=6603&start=50

after that didn't work, the thread got locked.

p.s.

I think they ought to try to find the 400 QtonPi units that were supposedly

reserved from the first 2K batch.  Those could probably make quite a nice

botnet if they fell into the wrong hands.  They seem to think it's futile to simply

try to make a list of everyone they ever might have banned or offended.

https://twitter.com/Raspberry_Pi/status/213291934968578048

I did see that thread and was going to reply, but as you say I think it got locked before I had a chance.

Remarkable attitude towards a group of people who could / should have quite an impact on the Pi world, if only they were allowed to.

The thing is, they have revelled in the use of the 'ban hammer' before and JamesH is particularly defensive of the foundation, which I guess is right up to a point, but he seems to be unclear of the line between obvious trolling and genuine questions from people that haven't got rose tinted lenses on.

It is perhaps me, but they don't seem to have understood that there are very few sites that people can go for help, theirs being the obvious target, and displaying the attitude they do is going to harm them as people are just going to give up. Let alone annoying groups of people at a time (QTonPi, Senecca)

The traffic in terms of new / interesting posts already seems to be dropping off on the Foundation's forum, which can't be good this early in its life ?

Ignoring several thousand requests for 'info' probably isn't a great idea either.

coder27 wrote:

 

well, they do have JamesH the diplomat.  Does that count?

LOL!

Well I guess that's why Element 14's forum is popular, people can discuss things here without interference by what can only be described as "corrupt admins" at RPF.   They're not actually "Internet forum admins" in the normal sense at all over there, but censors with extreme bias and absolutely no sense of even-handedness.

Hardware, software and procedures are not always perfect, and any reasonable forum must be able to discuss those things that are failing alongside those that are working well.  That's not allowed over there, and threads that remain totally polite and professional but which they consider dangerous to their PR are simply locked.  It's a corruption of the role and purpose of an admin on a community forum, which is to facilitate discussion, not block it.

It's utterly beyond the pale for a project that has very worthy educational goals, unless perhaps they want to train engineers for life under a dictatorship.  In software and hardware engineering, you MUST be able to discuss the good along with the bad, freely, or no progress can be made.  They don't understand that.

Morgaine.

Morgaine,

   It seems they may have misplaced your invite to the upcoming but much

delayed launch party at 12a.

If they organize a Raspberry Jam event somewhere closer to me than Cambridge, I'll be sure to take along a BeagleBone and iMX233-OLinuXino board as well as the Pi.  That should be fun.