Hello gEDAns, I am one of the developers of Fritzing, a simple FLOSS EDA made for less technical (non-engineer) users. Our project is young but we have been posting frequent releases since November.
I am also a gEDA user since 2005. I want to thank all the developers for producing such a powerful piece of software. Quite a few ideas (but no code) in Fritzing were based on your designs. Introductions aside, I was hoping to start a dialogue between our groups. We see our project as fitting into the EDA world in a different space from gEDA. Most of our target audience have limited experience with electronics and are interested in realizing small, low-complexity prototypes. However, as our software is limited (intentionally) in scope, some users may reach a stage where they need the more advanced EDA features of a package like gEDA. Right now, I'm working on a gEDA-PCB footprint import component that converts gEDA footprint files to our internal SVG based files. In the long term we would be interested in supporting some sort of export path so that users can export Fritzing projects and continue working on them in gEDA. Feel free to try out our latest builds, give us feedback, tips, gripes, etc. And we are totally open to any kind of collaboration. http://fritzing.org best, Brendan Howell _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user