Sorry man if you were in Northern California I'd have no problem helping you. Good luck with your search.
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Michael Sokolov<msoko...@ivan.harhan.org> wrote: > Hello gEDA/PCB users, > > I wonder, is there perchance a local user group in Southern California > similar to the Freeedaug on the East Coast? Or if there is no > established group, are there any individual gEDA/PCB users in Southern > California who might be interested in starting such a group? > > I would really like to find someone local from whom I could learn how to > use PCB for simple tasks. Because of the way my brain is wired, tasks > that are inherently graphical by their nature (such as PCB layout) are > very unnatural and difficult for me, so I know I will probably never do > my own complex PCB layouts of professional quality, instead I'll have to > outsource them like I did with the OSDCU (Ineiev did an outstanding job > in my opinion!), however, I would like to at least be able to do simple > things with PCB. I would like to be able to view existing layouts and > examine areas of interest to me, make minor edits and do my own layouts > of very simple boards that have maybe 2 or 3 components and fewer than > 10 or so traces. > > My difficulty is that my disability when it comes to graphical tasks > makes it harder for me than it would be for an average person, so whereas > a "normal" person would have no difficulty learning how to use PCB from > the various resources on the web, I think I would need to learn from > someone I can interact with in person. Hence I wonder if there is > anyone local in Southern California who would be willing to teach me > some basic use of the PCB GUI. > > I do have pcb-20081128 installed and working with the lesstif HID on my > Slackware Linux laptop. > > MS > > > _______________________________________________ > 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