Re: gEDA-user: Bad news about gEDA's participation in GSoC 2009

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Notice that BRL CAD did make the cut. Why solid modeling but not EDA?


On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 11:41 -0500, John Griessen wrote:
> Stuart Brorson wrote:
> > Hello --
> > 
> > I am unhappy to announce that the gEDA Project's application to the
> > Google Summer of Code was turned down this year.
> > 
> > This year, Google says that they are accepting fewer mentoring orgs so
> > that they may concentrate on inceasing the number of students staffing
> > those projects which they accept. 
> 
> Hmmm.... the top of the new list, the ones new to GSOC, include many
> web, media, communication developments -- kinda like Google...
> 
> I guess Google feels less techie electronics is OK in a recession...
> and probably for any time they care about, being a software oriented
> company using only very generic hardware, or large well financed
> arrays of any hardware that is custom for their apps.
> 
> but they miss that gEDA tools have a creativity amplifying effect on into the next boom indefinitely.
> 
> John Griessen



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