Can anyone volunteer or suggest a venue in Manhattan to hold a NYC keyboard meetup this week or next week with the F77/F62s and whatever keyboards people want to bring? Beamsprings, SSKs, XT's, AT's, F107s, original Kishsavers, etc.
Pemdas I'm confident we will find the 15 early bird tooling volunteers. I think we're at 9 or 10 now.
Can anyone else volunteer for $100 towards the early bird tooling?
In exchange for allowing everyone to receive their keyboards months earlier, you will be given a lower serial number, brought towards the front of the line in terms of testing and shipping your keyboard, and your user name will be added to the inside label as an early bird tooling volunteer. The only other way to be pushed to the front is to pay extra for a lower serial number only (not on the label).
It will also help popularize the Model F keyboard among more people, as I hope to facilitate getting different reviewers to borrow some early bird keyboards and test/review them while the final half of the group buy is still open. If anyone has any tips or inside connections at different tech media outlets/web sites/tech bloggers please let me know. I know that some people are fine waiting 7-8 months from now for the final group buy units to ship, if they can see what people are saying about them.