GH80 group buy

[woodruff]

The GH60 group buy, even with all its flaws, was highly innovative and set a standard, definining a new compatibility level. All 60% pcbs are compatible with all cases, and this allowed the growth of a big market of compatible cases. This obviously happened also thanks to the poker keyboard.

I wonder if somewhere, somehow, there can be a community effort to define a standard for other keyboard layouts. Perhaps something like a TKL group buy run by the GH community. Is this doable? Can this effort be undertook by some enlightened pcb designers?

[HoffmanMyster]

It would certainly be nice to have a standard dimension and screw/standoff layout for TKL boards.  One-off designs come with the risk that any damage to the PCB will possibly render the entire keyboard (case included) useless unless you can come across another compatible PCB.  People will often buy multiple PCBs to protect against this, but the knowledge that a compatible PCB is readily available would be great.