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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user