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Ben is a software engineer for BBC News Labs, and formerly Raspberry Pi's Community Manager. He's into Linux, Python and all things open source! Follow Ben on Twitter @ben_nuttall.
Ben is a software engineer for BBC News Labs, and formerly Raspberry Pi's Community Manager. He's into Linux, Python and all things open source! Follow Ben on Twitter @ben_nuttall.
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Have a read of the latest update on Pi Zero production from Eben, in which he states that the usual distributors are not manufacturing the Zero and that the Foundation are putting up the money for it.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/raspberry-pi-zero-production-getting-…
Our distributors are billion dollar companies who have the capital to order Raspberry Pi in huge numbers. We are a small charity who do not have lots of cashflow available. We've just ordered 150,000 units of Zero and they'll be distributed to suppliers shortly.
We're running free teacher training courses, trying to do our best to get to as many people as possible: https://www.raspberrypi.org/picademy/
We have dozens of resources on our website: https://www.raspberrypi.org/resources/
We recently hired a head of curriculum to focus on creating a syllabus to provide a progression sequence of learning materials.
We're a very small team but we're doing all we can to get computing to everyone: one one hand driving down the cost; on the other removing barriers to entry and providing free training and resources.