Yes, but I (and probably others) did not buy the base Penumbra set because of waiting on the ErgoDox stuff to get figured out (much less whether it would end up happening at all).
It would be nice if, when the ErgoDox bits are sorted out, we get a choice of the normal alphas set or blanks.
i have put the standard set up for order for a few more hours today, you and everyone else has had a month already if you wanted to order, and i have confirmed for a couple weeks we will add a dox kit
Yes, you confirmed that a dox kit would be added, but:
a) There was no indication whether the ErgoDox kit would come with alphas or not, since you left that up for a later decision based on the interested parties
b) The base and the alphas sets are totally different colors, and I (and I think everyone else, based on the mockups) would want the base colors for the alphas
c) A restricted alphas set for the ErgoDox people could theoretically be cheaper than the current alphas set since a lot of the keys wouldn't be needed, which would offset the cost of the new keys/legends
d) I don't generally buy things before I'm told the price
Not trying to be difficult, but the ED people were told to wait and see, and now that the ED stuff is in the process of getting sorted out, please do not fault us for waiting as we were asked...
sorry if i didnt make it clear before, my intention was that i would make an ergodox add on for people who wanted to take part in this gb, but wanted an option to also be able to use it on the ergodox
to be clear, i am not opening an ergodox groupbuy here, because of a very vocal minority, i agreed to make an ergodox extension kit, this kit will be open for people with pre existing orders with this groupbuy
in case that wasnt clear before, i have opened up orders again on the gb for today only
as for the price of the kit, i cant get a price on it until we have the number of people interested and until we agree upon a kit, i have sent some of the mockups for a quote today, anyone interested in the ergodox kits will pay whatever the number of kits cost, divided by the number of people who would like to buy
i should have some figures in the next 24 hours or so, just waiting on SP to reply
the ergodox kit itself, will be an extension kit, so it will not be a complete ergodox keyset without other parts of the group buy, in the same way the tsangan (or winkeyless) add on doesnt include a full set of alphas, if you want to cover yourself, pop in an order for either the base set or the alt alpha set, you can always cancel your order prior to paying the invoice if you arent happy with what the final ergodox set it
when it comes to the ergodox kit, we are hitting such low numbers, that if we included a full set of alphas with it, the cost wouldnt be justifiable to anyone
as stated before, there just isnt the demand here on gh, massdrop has the installed ergodox userbase, and im not running these gbs to make as many sets as humanly possible, i run them to give people on geekhack more options