Smoku, while you're certainly doing great stuff with this project from technical point of view, you're definitely not half as good in "convincing people to join Your case". Maybe you just don't care for that, but then, how You expect enough people sending You real money (not only signing for pre-order), when times comes? IMO in such projects, good communication with participants (even ones that aren't directly developing, but, for example, "only" using and ordering device) is 50% of success.

Haven't You thought about someone volunteering communication with participants? You want 250 people to pre-order, I doubt You can achieve communicating with all of them, when talking with 20-30 start to fail in a way "do it my way and live with it, if not, I don't want Your business"

I'm not trying to be rude here - quite opposite, I'm offering help. No one is good on all "fronts", neither You alone can do all things Yourself.

Maybe You haven't noticed - you probably have not - but increased interest in CordiaTAB started when bunch of people, including me, advocated this on current pre-election "future for maemo.org" threads. Most of people didn't even knew about Cordia project, before that. Many of them, including very active ones, even thought that You've left community long time ago without any trace.

Be honest with Yourself, PR isn't Your strong point. Managing such a big project require *very* good communication, or it will fail. Just my little advise - use currently present interest and people willing to help, or latter You may complain about not having such good souls around