Great post, Rohezal. You hit on a couple of topics that I like. You have a pulse on what drives some people/gamers/consumers. Now let me paint you another picture. What has been holding us back, showing our games/programs on the pandora? The small screen. That's part of it's charm and functionality of course, but "filming" and getting these great moments out there is almost impossible. It's just another way that the Pandora Team shot themselves in the foot. Get the tv-out cables into the hands of the public - the people that bought your gear. It's free, unsolicited advertising by rabid fans. Fuck.... I've always been dumbfounded by this. You'll see the sales spike ONCE you get these cables out to your customers. We all know what Youtube is...and we believe in this product. Make it happen.
I wonder in what ways TV-Out cables could help here? Some community members already make videos on a (more or less) regular basis, and I can't see any real difference in filming (close up) of the Pandoras screen directly and filiming a TV screen from far away.
You can do again 2 things:
1. If your main goal is advertising for the Pandora, this is what you wanted. People saw the Pandora. If some are willing to buy one and even donate for the port, even better.
2. If your main goal is to get some money for the porting work: Port it for Android and the OpenPandora. This will get you more backers and if you mention the Pandora in the description, it increases the Pandora sales.
I'm not sure if any kind of attention for the project will automatically help the Pandora. Looking at responses to reviews in the past, just "getting the word out there" can backfire on the project - especially with the dark "preorder mess" cloud still hanging over it.
Also a kickstarter campaign is a lot of work, as you can see in the comments section of the icp2 kickstarter page. People are expecting frequent posts / rapid responses from the team and are having no trouble expressing their discontent. With ED already struggeling keeping foot in a lot of camps, I doubt he has the time to do that too.
That should not prevent others from doing it - if you are that certain it will work out that good - try it.
I think our best chance is to physically go were our target customer base is likely to be (like Link did some weeks ago): exibtions, conferences, etc. for (retro)gaming, embedded devices, linux, developing, etc.
That way people can experience for themselves what using an OpenPandora means, and its very unlikely that you will end up with a couple of uncinvicible naysayers like me sourrounding your booth (unlike a commentary section, where it is easy for them beeing "present" all the time), who are constantly trying to poke their fingers in wounds they think exist.