PS: I've sent out the PM's around 7 hours ago. I have a few confirmations in with various timelines, hopefully this gets done before this Friday. This is starting to make me feel like the organizer now.

Where's the OP? I'd feel better if he were answering these questions. The last I head is that he said something about being a part of a group of engineers that have big asic plans. I'd like to know more about those plans, (as may of us here will need that kind of expertise. Myself included). Are any of them in the bitcointalk community? Just hearing from them here would go miles towards building trust here. John is only responsible for the coins. Ragingazn has ultimate responsibility for the chips. And, yes I do agree with these terms.
I'm in for 20 coins. Raging has said he will post his coins (about 40) in a few days.
JohnK and I are taking turns pretty much lol - I am up when he goes to sleep and he's up when I'm still asleep.
Yes I've been talking to local engineers to start up a project. Everyone's excited about this. Nothing is set in stone yet but I will let you know once the team is put together and our website is up etc. But the plan is that by the time the chips start shipping we would be able to offer a service to build ASIC machines using your chips that you ordered. You obviously would have to pay for the extra parts (PCB / PSU etc.) and labor. But that's all in the future for now. I am just planning ahead while we wait!