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> But coordinating between counties and projects is a lot of work for

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> a single person. 

I meant one named person per piece of hardware, rather than one person

for all hardware - the latter approach could cause problems if a

third party did not return the hardware.
> I don't think you'll get much joy trying to impose a structure on

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> how either the hardware or the work could be distributed.  It's up

> to people to work as they feel like it 

Sure - I meant that people would volunteer to be responsible for a

particular device, not some kind of centralised allocation system.

I'd guess that some devices would suit certain developers' skills and

interests more than others - there's not much point sending a

controller keyboard to a developer who isn't working on MIDI stuff,

for example.
> I

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> think the approach here has to be pragmatic as in many cases if the

> interested developer wants some hardware they can always buy it if

> they can afford it

Quite - but potentially these could be expensive pieces of hardware

loaned to developers releasing 'free as in beer' software. They may

also be pre-production models unavailable in the shops, or equipment

bartered for software support.
> or just approach the vendor directly for loan

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> stuff.

I think that would be unlikely to succeed if lots of different

developers were making competing claims for the same kit.  
> It'd be nice if LinuxAudio.org helped with this process

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> rather than tried to impose a regime to it

I did mean the hardware that the consortium was offered as a group,

not to interfere with relationships that individual members have (or

would like to have) with manufacturers.
Cheers
Daniel