Re: gEDA-user: Press release: gEDA Project and Linux Fund partner to boost gEDA/PCB usability

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Very cool. Is there a list of enhancements to be done as pert of this
project?

Steve Meier
 
On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 17:23 -0500, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> Good news for gEDA users!
> 
> Please read the below press release, of interest to all gEDA users.
> It has gone out to a variety of EE news sources, as well as mainstream
> press release sites.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Stuart
> 
> 
> December 15th, 2008
> 
> gEDA Project and Linux Fund partner to boost gEDA/PCB usability
> 
> Help bring open source circuit board design into the mainstream.
> 
> The gEDA Project is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Linux Fund
> in a fundraising effort targeted to expedite development of gEDA's flagship
> PCB layout program "PCB".  Within this partnership, expert gEDA/PCB developer
> DJ Delorie has agreed to implement a set of enhancements designed to upgrade
> PCB's usability and utility for electronics designers, making it an attractive
> open source alternative to commercial PCB design tools.  With this project,
> gEDA/PCB joins the VectorSection DWG interpreter project as part of Linux
> Fund's growing open engineering and hardware initiative.
> 
> PCB is a twenty year old application. Originally written in 1990 for the Atari
> ST, the program was ported to Unix in 1994. Over the years, it has been
> maintained and extended by a series of developers who have added improvements
> and new features, including the ability to export Gerber RS-274x files, an
> autorouter, and a GTK port. Mr Delorie is currently one of the chief
> developers involved with PCB, having become involved with the project in
> 2002.
> 
> DJ Delorie is well known within the open source community as the author of
> djgpp, a popular port of the gcc compiler to DOS. He is also a long time user
> of PCB, having used the program to design a net-enabled alarm clock which won
> second place in Circuit Cellar Magazine's "Microchip embedded control" design
> contest in 2007. His commitment to work on PCB usability enhancements in
> conjunction with funding from the Linux Fund represents a major step forward
> for the gEDA Project, as well as a welcome boost to the open-hardware
> movement.
> 
> gEDA/PCB upgrade work description:
> 
>      * Implement forward annotation using action scripts
>      * GUI modernization
>      * Enhance ability to create and edit arbitrary layer types
>      * Develop a new Footprint Editor
>      * Update Design Rule Checking
> 
> 
> About the gEDA Project
> 
> The gEDA Project is a community of open-source developers working on creating
> tools for electronic design released under the GNU Public License. The project
> currently offers a mature suite of free software applications for electronics
> design, including schematic capture, attribute management, bill of materials
> (BOM) generation, netlisting into over 20 netlist formats, analog and digital
> simulation, and printed circuit board (PCB) layout.
> 
> Besides the core design tools, the gEDA Project has gathered a community of
> other programmers who work on their own tools while sharing the gEDA e-mail
> lists, administration, and community support. This extended set of electronics
> design applications has become known as the "gEDA Suite".
> 
> Visit http://geda.seul.org for more information about the gEDA Project.
> 
> 
> About Linux Fund
> 
> Linux Fund is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides financial and
> supervisory support to the open source software community. Linux Fund raises
> funds with its line of rewards credit cards and direct donations, and has
> given over half a million dollars to open source projects since its founding
> in 1999.
> 
> Visit http://www.linuxfund.org for more information about Linux Fund and to
> help support the gEDA/PCB Project.
> 
> 
> 
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