Will they sell 15000? [They did]

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@kevr1990

I think there are lots of improvements that could be made throughout the site to improve clarity.

Hey Fairphone team - I’m a UX and UJ designer and would love to help you guys!

Thanks for the offer

We know there are issues that need improving on our site and shop. We’ve got digital creative partners to help in this area, but we move so quickly it’s sometimes hard for all of us to keep up.

@Jerry

So my guess is they’re producing 140,000 units in one go.

We’re producing phones on a continuous basis! We talk about in our blog on our 15,000 goal.

“To order the necessary components to assemble the first phones and to generate the income required to ensure continuous production, we’ve set a lofty goal: We want to sell 15,000 phones by the end of September.”

But it seems like the question is - how many phones can be made per month? That I don’t know myself. Hopefully we can answer it in a future blog.

@anon90052001kafka

I appreciate hugely what Fairphone is doing, but at the same time I wonder why a company that values transparency so highly has a forum full of people who spend hours and hours fishing for clues at to how the company is operating. Couldn’t one of Fairphone’s 34 employees spend 10 minutes a day communicating with the 17,000 people who have paid up front for a product that seems to be still in the development stage?

Hey @joekafka. I’m the Online Communications Manager, formerly Community Manager, and I’ve still got a big community heart and am on the forum quite a bit. Last week I was on holiday when this discussion was going on. So I’m here now!

I understand that people want updates, and we’re working on that. Sometimes the speed of the Internet where people want answers in hours or days is too fast for me to keep up with (yes for now it’s just me, no big online/social media team!).

@therob

And as I already suggested in direct mail contacts THIS are exatly these things, which you can post without a lot of additional work within a “micro-blog” or “daily news” section at the homepage.

Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll definitely pass them on to the new CM who we will introduce very soon! (He is not employed by Fairphone now so it is a bit premature to ask him to come in and introduce himself)

I understand that some people want more “micro-blogs” or daily updates. We’ve been thinking about it for a long time now, but still trying to find the right system to tell our stories across the whole company. You can imagine it’s quite some work to liaison with different teams (software, mineral sourcing, fair working conditions, e-waste, support team, operations, etc), and turn their daily/weekly work into just a tweet or paragraph size response.

Further, I personally worry that things at Fairphone change so much that it will be confusing for readers if they see one update this week and a contradicting update the next week - or if they miss one week of news. I’ll work with the new CM to think how to update the forum more, which I think is a good place for those hardcore fans who want keep up with our weekly news.

For our latest update on Fairphone news, check out this post:

The next steps after reaching the crowdfunding-goal? (What are your questions?)

Hi all, Sorry for the delayed response. I was on holiday last week so you may have heard a little less from me lately. I’m gathering all your questions for feedback in our upcoming blog(s), but here are some quick responses. Kees presented what he calls the software supply chain, showing the different actors involved in gaining control of our supply chain and having more influence for our goals of 1) a long-lasting phone 2) one that is accessible to users. There were members from the develope…