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It's the final day for the kickstarter. We are sitting at 104% funded with 164 backers.

First, we made it! Commodore died in 1994, Escom, Gateway, and Amiga Inc have all run with the torch and fell. Yet, we, the Amiga Community, are still going. I recently came across a great article that pointed out that John C. Dvorak liked to say that "Amiga users were actively delusional." Here we are in 2015 successfully community funding the 30th anniversary. We are a global community of committed compassionate users who feel strongly about how they compute. Thank you all, to all our backers, to the more than 3000 people who watched the video, to everyone who uses the Amiga still, to everyone who remembers when computing was fun, and to everyone who is wishing us well.

Second, we have received comments about the size of the stretch goals. With any kickstarter campaign setting the funding targets and stretch goals is one of the hardest parts. You can't know how successful the campaign will be till it's launched so you have to go with what you think will work. One thing about the Amiga is there are always surprises. Our two stretch goals of Internet streaming and a 2 day exhibit hall will not end with the kickstarter. If someone backs the campaign at the $60 level we will honor the 2 day event ticket.

Third, every dollar counts. We have so many crazy ideas on how to make this the best birthday a computer ever had but it takes money to make it happen. The more money we make here the better the event will be.

Last, this might be your only opportunity to show your friends a youtube video of Amiga 1000 serial #1 thanking you for backing the kickstarter. This is not a promise that such thing will happen... but it could.

Thank you,

Bill "tekmage" Borsari

Amiga 30th US Organizing Team

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Congrats on reaching funding! I've got my tickets and really looking forward to attending. Anyone else from the mid-Atlantic region (MD is my home) coming?

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News from Tekmage in the latest Kickstarter update -- "The big news I’m happy to share is that we will have a two day exhibit hall. You will recall that the kickstarter had a stretch goal to to expand the banquet to include a two day hall. We missed that goal during the kickstarter but a sponsor stepped up so we can expand the event."

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"We are also going to be releasing more tickets for sale. These tickets will come in the form of a $100 for the banquet, $40 for two days of exhibit hall, $20 for one day, and $60 for a family pass."

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I hope that public can visit the show free of any charge and free from tickets as renting of museum rooms was covered by kickstarter campaign, so lots of people can see with their eyes and make themselves a good idea of what was (and what IS) Amiga.
I hope that when you talk of "tickets" you are talking of the banquet and conferences only.

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@Thread,

I posted my intentions to represent MorphOS at this event, under the news item comments, and asked for any volunteers to help out at the MorphOS display table during the 2 day show. There are no replies after my comment, and that news item is about to scroll off the front page, so I am repeating the request for MorphOS user volunteers to man the MorphOS display table here in this thread.

If any MorphOS users will be attending the 30th Anniversary of Amiga event in Mountain View, Calif. this July, please contact me if you are interested in helping out at the MorphOS display table. I can't do it alone and would really appreciate some help.

Also, if any MorphOS Dev. Team members are reading this message, please contact me to let me know what information you would like to have distributed during this show. This is your opportunity to have some representation in the USA, and possibly gain a few new MorphOS users here.

Edit: I have attempted to contact the MorphOS Dev. Team directly, but have not received any replies yet. It just wouldn't be right to NOT have MorphOS represented at this important event.

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Announcing Saturday morning presentation by Ron Nicholson and Joe Decuir

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Other news:

http://amiga30.com/news/

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The world's first public screening of the "Viva Amiga" Documentary

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History Display update, Live Internet streaming, and something free!

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AmigaForever for free? Nice!

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Official show schedule is now available

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Just got on the ground in San Francisco. Woot woot!

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I too have been in San Francisco and Bay Area since this morning.

Oh boy. The revival of AmigaRoundTable in the silicon valley?

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I appreciate your enthusiasm, but 2 out of 6 does not a revival make

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What's the deal with streaming for this event? It's less than a day to go and there's no link! I guess it'll be an afterthought as they only managed to set up half the venue last night and will have to the rest this morning?

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less than a day to go

No. Only a few hours to go, and...

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I mentioned we are going to stream the show. We are going to try. We hit a snag with the internet at the museum which give us great doubt about the quality of the connection. We ever I will try to make it happen but I'm warning people now. When we started the kickstarter we needed $12,000 to guarantee streaming. If we got a few thousand in donation ticket sales on the eventbright page in the next 24 to 48 hours we might be able to get what we need to pull it off. Otherwise I can't make any promises at this point.

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No update as of yet.

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http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=iFDc2yH2f9o

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No. Only a few hours to go, and... No update as of yet.

A few hours is technically less than a day and is the proximity to the show is even more reason to have the stream link already in place! Again it just comes across as amateurish. Was going to watch a bit but who knows whether it'll be a blurry buffering mess like the Amsterdam one was

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That's a mobile link.

Anyone wishing to test this needs to remove the "#".

I've been told this works, depending on what country you live in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFDc2yH2f9o

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