Comments on: UMPCPortal’s IDF Project. Donation request.

By: Intel Software Network Blogs » Atom @ IDF - Lots of cool devices, still working on answers

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:02:02 +0000

[...] a lot of time today with Steve Paine from UMPCPortal.com, who made it over to cover IDF courtesy of his loyal users. I’m learning a lot from him on which devices he finds the most compelling and why, and how the [...]

By: moep

moep — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:51:57 +0000

Hope the money (31) helps, Steve. Love your work.

Greetz from Germany

By: Inhuman

Inhuman — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:47:08 +0000

Hope mine counts…

By: foxy

foxy — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:33:55 +0000

great website & information. Looking at these products for irish education market. hope my miniature donation gets your a relaxing drink in SF. Enjoy. Foxy

By: Gorto

Gorto — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:10:56 +0000

Hope my little donation could help.

By: IDF. We’re getting there! | UMPCPortal - The Ultra Mobile Computing reference site

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:29:23 +0000

[...] was fantastic. I had no idea that so many people would support the IDF effort. I feel honoured! We’ve raised over $700 so far. I can hardly believe it. It gets me almost [...]

By: icura

icura — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:52:45 +0000

Hope you appriciate my donation under the name icurafu. I’ve used the info on this site a lot and recommended it to many of my friends.

I would be interested to know how intel plan to take on ARM in the linux space for MID devices.

By: chippy

chippy — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:51:27 +0000

Yup. I’ll try and make my own now….

Steve.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:49:17 +0000

Chipin.com has that widget… see, i told you people like to see those updates!

By: chippy

chippy — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:10:25 +0000

Unfortunately, the others are test devices on long-term loan. Apart from the Akoya Mini which the wife wants to ‘buy’ from me!
Steve.

By: chippy

chippy — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:08:57 +0000

Thanks Jen.
I’ll try and get a widget up with the donation totals today. I don’t know if I can get it to auto-update but at the least, I can update it daily.
Steve.

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:11:30 +0000

This is the first time I’ve been to this site (thanks to Sascha and his eeepcnews.de link) and I don’t really know you, but I know what it feels like to dream of these things and to hope that somehow you’ll be able to make it come true

Plus: You live in my home town
Plus: San Francisco is great (I’ll be happy to suggest some great breakfast places)

Hope the (small, I admit it) donation helps.
Add a widget somewhere that shows the current amount donated!

By: chippy

chippy — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:51:00 +0000

Yeah. There it is. its a lottery that needs a license.
I’m not sure if the people donating would be happy to have to apply their skill to win a comp either.

I’ll have to think about this although I’m happy to say that there have been some amazingly generous people donating today.

Steve.

By: ChristophD

ChristophD — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:49:16 +0000

Always happy to donate to a worthy cause such as this one!

Since I just fly out of San Francisco on Friday I also have some recommendations when it comes to doing touristy-stuff there, plus if you want I can lend you my (German) guide-book.

By: ecsk2

ecsk2 — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:46:25 +0000

Legal in regards to who/what? Germany? The UK? The EU?

Technically there are a few things to consider here, 1. What country you actually reside in (typically defined as where you spend more than 6 mos of the year) 2. What country you are operating from (if there is a legal entity “behind” your blog). 3. What country your Paypal is registered in, as that becomes the country the transaction actually takes place!

You can have multiple Paypal accounts in whatever country/countries Paypal allows you to!

For instance I am a EU citizen of one EU country and with legal/residential ties to another, but I do NOT reside in any of them. So for instance when I buy my Skype credits with my US Paypal account I do NOT pay any EU VAT, obviously, nor am I breaking any laws!

I am not giving directions or hints here how to break the law, rather the contrary how one can keep things WIHTIN the law