Bit of a necro, but I have some suggestions. (When did I ever not, he says....)Any suggestions on how we get it across that the Foundation is the educational side, and the Ltd is the bit that makes everything would be most welcome!!! It is frustrating that this is not yet well known, given it has been that way for many years.
1. A clear statement on raspberrypi.com that Raspberry Pi Ltd is the company that designs and build the computers, chips, microcontrollers etc. The main 'about us' page tells folk exactly what Raspberry Pi Ltd does, except it doesn't say that - it just refers to 'Raspberry Pi'.
2. Sort out your wikipedia page. I tried a few months ago, but was shot down in flames when I tried to change the first paragraph so it put Raspberry Pi Ltd front and centre, instead of the Foundation. It's got worse since then, as now there is some crap about Raspberry Pi Ltd being turned into a PLC, which is not what happened. (For those that don't know, there's a separate holding company that DID go public - that's the PLC that owns Raspberry Pi Ltd.)
3. An org chart of the various corporate entities that make up the Raspberry Pi family would be helpful, even if it was just plc, ltd, Foundation and 'assorted subsidiaries' as four entities on the chart.
I would put 1 and 2 on equal footing importance-wise for getting the message across. Having said that, Wikipedia in particular gets used as some kind of oracle by search engines. For example, if you google 'Raspberry Pi' the first page of results contains a link to the wikipedia entry for Raspberry Pi, which also displays the first sentence of the wikipedia entry, which unfortunately says that Raspberry Pi computers are a product of the Foundation. So that needs fixed first, I would suggest.
And while it's perhaps a bit niche, explain that the holding company went public, not Raspberry Pi Ltd. If I've understood the various documents on the Companies House website correctly, Raspberry Pi Ltd is now an wholly-owned subsidiary of Raspberry Pi Holdings plc. The plc floated on the main market of the London Stock Exchange.
Statistics: Posted by andrum99 — Thu Sep 05, 2024 5:03 am