Re: gEDA-user: Press release: gEDA Project and Linux Fund partner to boost gEDA/PCB usability

2008-12-16 Thread Stuart Brorson
Hi -- The project statement of work is available from the doc section of the gEDA wiki here: The two goals I added during the discussion phase did mot make it into the detailed list of tasks: * exact CAD-like user input and * Properties editor I hope, they won't be forgotten , anyway.

Re: gEDA-user: Press release: gEDA Project and Linux Fund partner to boost gEDA/PCB usability

2008-12-16 Thread Duncan Drennan
[1] And the second best way to do it is to pay a developer to create the patches. ;-) The most difficult thing about this is knowing what a reasonable value is, which is one of the nice things about how the SOW was laid out - it attached a specific value to the tasks involved.

Re: gEDA-user: Press release: gEDA Project and Linux Fund partner to boost gEDA/PCB usability

2008-12-16 Thread John Griessen
Stuart Brorson wrote: the funding should be viewed as a catylist to spur further development of the program . . . Like all good non-profit activity -- looks about the same as for profit on a day to day basis, and always acts as seed fertilizer for extra benefit on every effort made. . even

Re: gEDA-user: Press release: gEDA Project and Linux Fund partner to boost gEDA/PCB usability

2008-12-15 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:05:52 -0500, Stuart Brorson wrote: The project statement of work is available from the doc section of the gEDA wiki here: The two goals I added during the discussion phase did mot make it into the detailed list of tasks: * exact CAD-like user input and * Properties

Re: gEDA-user: Press release: gEDA Project and Linux Fund partner to boost gEDA/PCB usability

2008-12-15 Thread al davis
On Monday 15 December 2008, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: The two goals I added during the discussion phase did mot make it into the detailed list of tasks: * exact CAD-like user input and * Properties editor I hope, they won't be forgotten , anyway. Hopefully, this is the first of many. If this

gEDA-user: Press release: gEDA Project and Linux Fund partner to boost gEDA/PCB usability

2008-12-14 Thread Stuart Brorson
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

Re: gEDA-user: Press release: gEDA Project and Linux Fund partner to boost gEDA/PCB usability

2008-12-14 Thread Steve Meier
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,

Re: gEDA-user: Press release: gEDA Project and Linux Fund partner to boost gEDA/PCB usability

2008-12-14 Thread Stuart Brorson
Hi -- Very cool. Is there a list of enhancements to be done as pert of this project? The project statement of work is available from the doc section of the gEDA wiki here: http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:pcb_funding_sow This is the original SOW; it may have morphed a little (but probably not