On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Stephen Ecob <silicon.on.inspirat...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Peter Brett <pe...@peter-b.co.uk> wrote: >>> 1. Would any of the existing maintainers be able to devote more time >>> to gEDA if they had financial support to do so ? >> >> In my case: yes. :-/ >> >> Peter > > OK, so that's a 'yes' for question 1! > > Now for question 2 - money. > A few weeks back I was seriously considering paying $5K for Altium. > In the end I decided against it (closed source p*sses me off too > much), but it did make me realise that I could justify spending that > kind of money on pcb software. Now if we're thinking in terms of a > $200K per year developer then $5K will achieve next to nothing - but > let's think of alternatives. I can't remember the details, but I > vaguely recall that a second Google Summer of code with funding of > ~$15K would have allowed Anthony to finish the toporouter. > http://www.linuxfund.org/projects/pcb/ tells me that $3330 allowed DJ > to improve PCB's file import system. So we don't necessarily have to > think in $100K's for achieving real results. Now many of us aren't in > a position to spend money on PCB software - but what if two other > members of our community were also able to afford $5K ? Perhaps three > of us could chip in to fund a GSOC equivalent. If that allowed a > result like finishing the toporouter (say), I could well judge that to > be money well spent. If 7 other people came forward and it was $2K > each I'd find it a no brainer. But I realise I'm really ignorant of > my own community - am I the only one who would consider funding PCB > development by others ? Are there 7 who could afford $2K ? Are there > 20 who could afford $750 ? >
I'm aiming to finish University in a few months.. if people would like to fund work on the toporouter, then I would be pretty keen to work on it full time. Regards, Anthony _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user