In a blogpost about the Model A, Liz Upton, community manager for the RaspberryPiFoundation, said it was "very, very pleased" to have the new version go on sale.
The campus, which is the seat of the RaspberryPiFoundation, certainly has a vested interest in getting new coders to the board -- not that they need to create any more demand.
The two-month long competition was run by the foundation behind the RaspberryPi and intended to find the best young programmers working with the bare-bones computer.