gEDA-user: Freedog-like groups in Southern California?
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
Re: gEDA-user: Freedog-like groups in Southern California?
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 Sokolovmsoko...@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
Re: gEDA-user: Freedog-like groups in Southern California?
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 don't know how relevant this is to PCB, but some people can copy artwork in extraordinary detail by turning it upside down. The brain stops trying to process the picture that way, that gets in the way in tasks like this. How do you get your monitor to display something upside down, with out turning the monitor over? Seems like there would be some simple way to do that. Preferably on a per-window basis. I think I would need to learn from someone I can interact with in person. There are always things like VNC and RFB et.al that let people interact with you on your own screen. -- http://www.wearablesmartsensors.com/ http://www.softwaresafety.net/ http://www.designer-iii.com/ http://www.unusualresearch.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: Freedog-like groups in Southern California?
On the Northern California front. I'm in sunnyvale, CA. Any other users in the area On Jun 24, 2009, at 5:08 PM, Anthony Shanks wrote: Sorry man if you were in Northern California I'd have no problem helping you. Good luck with your search. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: Freedog-like groups in Southern California?
On Wednesday 24 June 2009, Steven Michalske wrote: On the Northern California front. I'm in sunnyvale, CA. Any other users in the area There's a oseda group that meets third wednesday every month. The location varies, but Bangkok Spoon Thai restaurant, 702 Villa St. (corner of Villa St. and Hope St.) Mountain View, seems to be one of their top places. I usually make it about once a year, maybe twice, I don't live in California but travel there often enough to hook up once in a while. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: Freedog-like groups in Southern California?
I'm also in Sunnyvale. :) On Jun 24, 2009, at 6:22 PM, Steven Michalske wrote: On the Northern California front. I'm in sunnyvale, CA. Any other users in the area On Jun 24, 2009, at 5:08 PM, Anthony Shanks wrote: Sorry man if you were in Northern California I'd have no problem helping you. Good luck with your search. ___ 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
