This is why I am thinking about putting together a talk for student chapters of IEEE. I intend to present geda... show them how it works and what can be done with it. then I intend to show the code and answer questions about how the code and file structures work. Then... do you need to do a senior level project. How about rewritting the auto router for pcb? How about looking into transmission line modeling for...pcb. There is a wealth of projects that students could do with this pile of code. And a wealth of advisers and evaluators. How much more cool could a project be then toi end up with others using it... And.... lets say you are a student and you want to work for one of those EDA companies.... What better way of demonstrating your interest then by adding a feature to geda... Ask the coorporate recruiters if they would rather have you working for them or working for open source eda?
Ouch did we just bend an arm?
Steve Meier
Al Davis wrote:
On Tuesday 14 December 2004 01:54 pm, John Eaton wrote:
It always irk's me when someone says that Open Source isn't
"professional caliber" or lacks user support.
But remember who said that. It is just a vendor defending his own product, It is a vendor of low end cad, that could be threatened by open source. Although we don't like that, it is really to be expected.
We really should take that as a challenge. Take a critical look at our own stuff, and ask what it would take to make it truly "professional caliber". In particular, look at how the tools interact.
What really irks me is when educators say that. Too many schools with EE programs use only proprietary software and black box proprietary hardware. Often they use the "free" version of proprietary software, that is crippled so it is just adequate for homework assignments, then they back down on the material taught to make it fit the crippled software. Then at the senior/grad level, they buy the full version, but only for the lab, so the students need to actually go to the lab to do simple simulations. They live in the lab, just to use proprietary software. Then they graduate, and can't rerun their own lab experiments because they don't have the proprietary software, or the license expired. I will shut up now.