I replied on the RPi forums to keep the discussion alive over there and hopefully get some interest from their development team. However, I had some thoughts that I thought would be more of interest to you.
While I understand that the x86 and current Turnkey development is a priority for you and your team, I wanted to encourage you to possibly consider putting some effort into ARM/RPi development. The reason is twofold. First, ARM is becoming a more and more common processor, and having images available opens up an entire world of possibilities for Turnkey. Second (and more importantly), the RPi, embedded systems, and IoT platforms are becoming a HUGE deal. If TKLDev became the de-facto image development and creation platform for the RPi, imagine how much traffic and attention Turnkey would get. I'm regularly surprised to find that my infrastructure colleagues don't know that Turnkey exists. I remember reading this post by Liraz Siri two years ago, and his first point was simply: "[TKL is the] best kept secret of the internet." TKLDev for the RPi may very well be the key to solving this marketing problem.
You mentioned in your post over on the RPi forum that you already have a substantial amount of distributed hosting. I don't know how much of your budget is spent on this, but considering that the RPi Foundation has support and funding from companies like Google and Microsoft, perhaps a relationship with them would be a strategic partnership that would help with your resources and overhead. If you consider my previous point (making TKLDev become the RPi tool of choice), you may be able to work with these corporate sponsors to secure some heavily discounted (maybe free?) hosting and storage. I'm sure that would certainly help free up funds and allow you and your team to work on other backlogged efforts.
That's all I have for now. If you wanted to take this offline as PMs or emails, let me know, and I'd be glad to discuss further.
I replied on the RPi forums
I replied on the RPi forums to keep the discussion alive over there and hopefully get some interest from their development team. However, I had some thoughts that I thought would be more of interest to you.
While I understand that the x86 and current Turnkey development is a priority for you and your team, I wanted to encourage you to possibly consider putting some effort into ARM/RPi development. The reason is twofold. First, ARM is becoming a more and more common processor, and having images available opens up an entire world of possibilities for Turnkey. Second (and more importantly), the RPi, embedded systems, and IoT platforms are becoming a HUGE deal. If TKLDev became the de-facto image development and creation platform for the RPi, imagine how much traffic and attention Turnkey would get. I'm regularly surprised to find that my infrastructure colleagues don't know that Turnkey exists. I remember reading this post by Liraz Siri two years ago, and his first point was simply: "[TKL is the] best kept secret of the internet." TKLDev for the RPi may very well be the key to solving this marketing problem.
You mentioned in your post over on the RPi forum that you already have a substantial amount of distributed hosting. I don't know how much of your budget is spent on this, but considering that the RPi Foundation has support and funding from companies like Google and Microsoft, perhaps a relationship with them would be a strategic partnership that would help with your resources and overhead. If you consider my previous point (making TKLDev become the RPi tool of choice), you may be able to work with these corporate sponsors to secure some heavily discounted (maybe free?) hosting and storage. I'm sure that would certainly help free up funds and allow you and your team to work on other backlogged efforts.
That's all I have for now. If you wanted to take this offline as PMs or emails, let me know, and I'd be glad to discuss further.