Painful decisions of the Raspberry Pi Foundation can harm other Foundations & Research Institutes

Last Updated on May 13, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

The Raspberry Pi Foundation

Eben Upton founded the Raspberry Pi Foundation with colleagues. The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK-based charity with the mission to enable young people to realise their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies. But Raspberry Pi foundation founder Eben Upton makes painful availability updates about the Raspberry Pi and communicates also other painful decisions:

We are not young people and we don’t need a charity, but we still do not have a research grant, and continue to suffer from the Raspberry Pi shortage.

Every foundation has somehow to be funded.

We have for instance the

The Mind Foundation

which promotes psychedelic science

https://mind-foundation.org/?gclid=CjwKCAjwx_eiBhBGEiwA15gLNzthNhj3xMabJmsUdBhxqVzMqMOgby90F4p5fzY1TQKteTRSRMd08xoCLXgQAvD_BwE

One of the speakers of the Mind Foundation is

Vanja Palmers

Palmers is million heir of the textile company Calida located in Switzerland. He studied business science and then became an anmial activist and Zen Priest:

https://mind-foundation.org/speaker/vanja-palmers/

Vanja Palmers is eventually co-funder of these foundations:

1) Mind Foundation

which promotes psychedelic science

2) Felsentor Foundation Retreat Center

Vanja Palmers is founder and president who founded the Felsentor Meditation Retreat Center on the Rigi mountain in Switzerland:

https://www.felsentor.ch/vanja-palmers

The Felsentor Foundation was established in 1999 by Zen priest Vanja Palmers and Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast.

3) Felsentor Foundation Animal Sanctuary

The animal sancturary can also be found on the mountain Rigi next to the Felsentor Retreat Center:

https://www.protier.ch/lebenshoefe/lebenshoefe-in-der-schweiz/tierschutzstelle-stiftung-felsentor

The animal protection center exists since 2005 and is the home of a wide variety of former farm animals who lived under catastrophic conditions, these animals include sheeps, pigs, goats, dogs, cats, chickens and ducks.

The Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS)

The MRIS has nothing to do with Vanja Palmers, it is a private project of Peter Gamma on Peter Gammas personal website:

What happens if these Foundations and Research Institutes need Rasperry Pi’s for their projects? They will continue to suffer from the Raspberry Pi shortage, as well as many other Raspberry Pi users worldwide.