Congratulations guys: KiCon, The Linux Foundation, KiCad Services
Corporation... The project is definitely changing gears, and it's very
exciting to see. Keep rocking!
Javier
On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 3:29 PM Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> I wanted keep everyone up to date with my employment situation si
Great news, and quite a milestone for KiCad! Congratulations Wayne!
Cheers,
Javier
On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 8:05 PM Wayne Stambaugh
wrote:
> For those you who haven't heard yet, I made the announcement yesterday
> at KiCon that I am now work for WIT and I will be working full time on
> KiCad. I
Congratulations John! And thanks for all the great work so far.
Javier
PS. I don't know if somebody already posted this. The video of Wayne's talk
in FOSDEM is already online:
https://video.fosdem.org/2019/AW1.125/kicad.mp4
https://video.fosdem.org/2019/AW1.125/kicad.webm
On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at
Hello, I have little to add to what Wayne said. Just a few clarifications:
- Donors to KiCad donate because they trust we will use the money
correctly. For practical reasons, they cannot decide what specifically will
be done with the money, even if we are always happy to read their
suggestions. Bu
I forgot to link to an initiative from FSFE for those interested in best
practices for documenting the licence of Free and Open Source projects:
https://reuse.software/
Cheers,
Javier
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 12:02 PM, Javier Serrano <
javier.serrano.par...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi St
Hi Steve, some comments inlined below:
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 4:13 PM, Steven A. Falco
wrote:
> I'm packaging KiCad for Fedora. The web page: http://kicad-pcb.org/about/
> licenses/ states that KiCad is GPLv3 or greater. Yet, the source files
> (for example eeschema/edit_bitmap.cpp) still say
On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 8:43 PM, Chris Pavlina
wrote:
> Has CERN began work on that yet?
>
Yes, Jon is actually working for a CERN order. Sorry for the confusion. We
usually keep Wayne in the loop so we are all on the same page. We worked
with him on the work package description, but we forgot t
On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 3:33 AM, Oliver Walters <
oliver.henry.walt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Let's take a step back:
>
> Currently we have the 3Dmodels license - https://github.com/KiCad/
> packages3D/wiki/Model-Licencing - which is modelled after the GEDA
> project (as easyw mentioned previously).
>
On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Oliver Walters <
oliver.henry.walt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> After that, people who contribute new symbols/fottprints/models should
>> make copyright and license notices part of that submission, exactly as for
>> source code.
>
>
> This is going to be very burdensom
On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 1:21 AM, Oliver Walters <
oliver.henry.walt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Cirilo,
>
> Can we stipulate as part of the license file that any contributors agree
> implicitly that their generated models are released as public domain? i.e.
> don't require explicit release from every co
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 5:43 PM, easyw wrote:
> Hi Javier,
>
> atm our 3d script generated library has already a license similar to geda
>
> https://github.com/KiCad/packages3D/wiki/Model-Licencing
>
> Particularly what has been stated there is the freedom to share the 3D
> models embedded in the
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 8:34 PM, José Ignacio wrote:
> PS: another inconvenience for the license is section 3.a, attribution.
> There is no automated way to generate a proper attribution list from the
> schematic/layout, since each library is housed in a different repository
> with different cont
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Simon Richter
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 29.06.2017 12:18, Javier Serrano wrote:
>
> > I agree the creative side is stronger for symbols than for footprints.
> > Copyrightability is, as you well point out, a subject of debate in
> > vario
Hi Jose,
On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 5:33 PM, José Ignacio wrote:
> My two cents. All this copyleft licensing stuff for _libraries_ is
> over-complicating things, copyright on stuff like footprints and accurate
> 3d models is fairly tenuous as the representation of the work is very
> tightly constra
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 10:16 AM, Oliver Walters <
oliver.henry.walt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would it be sufficient to drop the "Copyright (C) 2017 KiCad" header?
>
I don't think so, sorry! When you include a license header in a file, you
are giving users more rights than they initially had. Only
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 3:27 AM, Oliver Walters <
oliver.henry.walt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wayne, others,
>
> A lot of input here, thanks everyone.
>
> Based on the suggestions above, my proposal is as follows:
>
>
>
nse that I clarify that with
a copyright statement before the licensing paragraph.
Hope it makes sense! Cheers,
Javier
On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Javier Serrano <
javier.serrano.par...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, I forgot to answer this:
>
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Oliv
Sorry, I forgot to answer this:
On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Oliver Walters <
oliver.henry.walt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wayne, Maciej, et al,
>
> This has been sitting in my //todo for a while. Can I get some
> clarification on the LICENSE issue and then I will ensure it is applied to
> the re
is to put a file containing
> the
> > > text in the libraries repository. Alternatively, the text could be
> > > stored in the 'License' field for symbols or 'Doc' property for
> > > footprints, but it feels a bit too wordy to me.
> &g
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 6:21 PM, Wayne Stambaugh
wrote:
> I'm still waiting for our friends at CERN for an answer on library
> licensing. We are leaning towards CC-SA with the use exception clause.
> I turning out to be the longest time ever to write a single sentence. ;)
>
OK, better late than
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 11:55 PM, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
>
> That depends on what you mean by 'free'. If the output is Public Domain
> then
> anyone can use it for whatever purpose they like and have no obligations.
>
Strictly speaking, I don't think we can actually put a creation of the type
ty
On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Simon Richter
wrote:
>
> I ended up at the bar across the street. Dinner today?
>
>
I am organizing the EDA devroom dinner this year as usual, and I thought we
had all the KiCad people. Discussion has happened in the EDA devroom list
[1]. Sorry, I did not know you
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Wayne Stambaugh
wrote:
> Thank you Carl for all of you efforts in maintaining the KiCad
> libraries. The KiCad libraries have come a long way.
>
I'd like to join Wayne in thanking you. It's fantastic to see how many
people offer their time and talent to make KiC
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Wayne Stambaugh
wrote:
>
> Sounds good to me. Would these tutorials replace the hour long beginner
> tutorial that we discussed during our phone conversation?
>
Yes, there are already good beginner tutorials on the web for KiCad 4, like
Chris Gammell's "Getting
On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 6:08 PM, Wayne Stambaugh
wrote:
>
> I signed up for my usual KiCad project status talk. Did You, Tom, or
> Orson sign up for the KiCad tutorial? If not, do you want me to create
> that talk?
>
>
We discussed this morning. We are thinking of two additional KiCad talks:
Dear all,
The call for participation in the FOSDEM 2017 EDA devroom is open:
http://www.ohwr.org/projects/ohr-meta/wiki/FOSDEM2017
Feel free to submit proposals for a talk, tutorial or demo, and to pass
this on to anybody you think could be interested.
Cheers,
Javier
__
Dear all,
Greetings from the library of the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao
Paulo, in Brazil. We are just starting the hackathon [1] now, making sure
everybody has a good clone of the repo. Tom and Orson are then going to
explain the basics of the KiCad code tree and the available work packa
On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Wayne Stambaugh
wrote:
>
> On 10/6/2016 3:23 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 08:51:54AM +0200, jp charras wrote:
> >> Le 06/10/2016 à 08:13, Cirilo Bernardo a écrit :
> >>> Hi folks,
> >>>
> >>> Any comments on this patch I proposed a few week
Orson, Tom, AWESOME work! Congratulations!
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski
wrote:
...
> The code is currently available in the ngspice branch on Tom's GitHub
> [2] for review & testing. It's a big feature, so we didn't want to push
> it immediately to the product branch. We'll
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 5:31 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> I just wanted to give everyone a quick heads up about the CERN trip.
> First I would like to say thank you the CERN folks for their generosity
> in hosting a KiCad developers hackathon. We also took a trip to visit
> Jean-Pierre who was an
On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> One thing I noticed is the OCE license
> is LGPL 2.1 not 2.1+. I do not know if that is an issue for us. I
> suspect not but I do not claim to be a licensing expert so if anyone
> else knows if this OK or not please speak up.
According t
On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 8:08 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> I believe you need to be either a student or a professor to stay at the
> CERN hostel. You need to contact CERN directly for more information
> about staying at the hostel. Javier may be able to help out on that
> front.
I'll answer pri
Al, I forward this to the KiCad developers list.
Cheers,
Javier
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 10:20 PM, al davis ad...@freeelectron.net
[kicad-users] wrote:
>
>
> Gnucap will again be participating in the Google Summer of Code,
> as part of the GNU project.
>
> Why am I posting this to Kicad?
>
> In
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Mário Luzeiro wrote:
> I hope they will record the presentation from Wayne as they did last year. It
> was a very helpful for me (and I believe it should be for other kicad
> developers) It helped to get a good picture of the project status and road
> maps. Als
Dear all,
The schedule for the EDA devroom in FOSDEM 2016 is now final:
https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/eda/
I think the line-up is quite impressive. For those of you who can
attend, it should be a great opportunity to discuss face to face with
developers and users of KiCad and other FOSS
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:00 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> So I don't think we have the above mentioned openssl problem as such
> anymore. I don't think that building with a libcurl with openssl and
> distributing those binaries violate any licenses, but I am not sure. I
> think the main problem
Hi, the thread about libcurl made me think about a recent discussion I
read about OpenSSL licensing. The OpenSSL license seems to be
incompatible with GPL [1]. They do have plans to migrate to Apache 2
[2], which is compatible with GPL, but they're not there yet.
Cheers,
Javier
[1] http://www.gn
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> I just submitted my request to present at the EDA dev room for FOSDEM
> 2016. After last years unexpected EDA dev room success, I am hoping to
> see more of you at this years EDA dev room. I believe we are getting a
> larger room after la
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 3:57 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> On 11/4/2015 9:01 PM, Stefano Rossi wrote:
>> Also, it isn't clear the goals. Are CERNs goals kicad goals? I have
>> learned that if you have no clear goals you will waste time in useless
>> features. Feature creep. Then the rest of the time
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 7:26 PM, wrote:
>> We actually do have an idea where we are headed and a road map
>
> That's good, but they are still too vague for a newbie to learn what exactly
> needs to be done.
As a newbie, what type of information would you expect to find, and how?
Thanks,
Javier
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Mário Luzeiro wrote:
> That is good news. Olimex precedes Arduino and the boom of opensource
> hardware we are at moment. I remember long years ago that Olimex was already
> a reference in embedded systems with their development boards.
> It would be good to get s
they provide
>>>> KiCad design files, and figure out the policy for ones where they don't
>>>> later.
>>>>
>>>> Cut the problem in half, and tackle the easy one :)
>>>>
>>>> Adam Wolf
>>>> Cofounder and Engine
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 12:39 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> Yes. The P&S router still has a serious segfault issue. I've talked to
> Tom about it and he is working on it. As soon as the fixes are
> committed, I will be rolling out rc2. I'm hoping it will be soon.
Last time I saw Orson and Tom w
On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> I know it's noisy but I want developer input on this as well as website
> developer input. I think the developers have a right to know how their
> work is being used and have a say in it. The CERN folks may want some
> say on this as well
Dear all,
The Call for Participation for the FOSDEM 2016 EDA devroom is out:
http://www.ohwr.org/projects/ohr-meta/wiki/FOSDEM2016
Please consider submitting a contribution or at least coming and
joining all your KiCad friends. It will also be a good opportunity to
see what the other FOSS EDA pr
Friends,
Please reserve Saturday 30 January 2016 in your agendas, and try to
join us in Brussels for the FOSDEM 2016 EDA devroom. Last year's
devroom was a great opportunity to meet other KiCad people and also to
discuss with developers of other projects like GEDA, QUCS, GHDL, etc.
I will write mo
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 3:51 AM, timofonic timofonic
wrote:
> Mailing list seems like a disaster place to sniff organization.
> What about connecting and merging that information?
> What about using a wiki?
We keep track of things we see on the mailing list and other forums here:
http://www.ohwr
On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 1:11 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> Thank you to everyone who has made this possible. It's been a lot of
> work but it's also been a hell of a lot fun. I think I hear a couple of
> adult beverages in my refrigerator calling my name.
Indeed quite a ride! Thank you and congr
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> 2015-08-27 14:40 GMT+02:00 Javier Serrano :
>> Well done guys. The site looks amazing! I think this is also an
>> appropriate moment to thank the fine folks who maintained the
>> Confluence site all these yea
Well done guys. The site looks amazing! I think this is also an
appropriate moment to thank the fine folks who maintained the
Confluence site all these years, especially Miguel.
Regarding content, I just have a minor comment on the "About" part. I
think we should replace "The suite runs on Windows
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 12:09 AM, Attila Kinali wrote:
> So, I would like to ask, whether there would be any interest of the
> developers to work on the UI. If so, I would start collecting
> points on the UI that are worth to work on and how to improve them.
Hi Attila, working on the UI is in th
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> Indeed there are some hilarious people/trolls in there, it is both fun
> at sad to see how some people is not knowing anything about something,
> but still persists to say that that something is crap, when 95% of
> their points are invald.
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Javier Serrano
wrote:
> "Other Usage
> You can be released from the requirements of the license by purchasing
> a commercial license. Buying such a license is mandatory as soon as
> you develop commercial activities involving the SISL
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:20 AM, Cirilo Bernardo
wrote:
> My wording of the initial message must have been vague. AGPLv3 does not
> prohibit
> commercial use, but SINTEF as the copyright holder only allows AGPLv3 use if
> the application is not a commercial cloud service.
Sorry to be a PITA Cir
ers
> [kicad-developers-bounces+mrluzeiro=ua...@lists.launchpad.net] on behalf of
> Javier Serrano [javier.serrano.par...@gmail.com]
> Sent: 26 March 2015 19:02
> To: KiCad Developers
> Subject: [Kicad-developers] Looking for KiCad success stories
>
> Dear all,
>
> For t
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:09 PM, Cirilo Bernardo
wrote:
> The only real limitation is that if you're providing KiCad as a commercial
> cloud service then a licensing agreement has to be negotiated with
> SINTEF;
No, I don't think this is correct. The AGPL, as the GPL, imposes
absolutely no limi
Dear all,
For the annual report of the CERN and Society Foundation, we are
looking for success stories which could illustrate the impact of CERN
contributions. I know it's a bit early, but if you know of any, be it
in academia, industry or other, please let me know off list. I will
also write to t
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> I think anyone who provides KiCad as a service should make the KiCad
> source available. It seems to me that the GPL2+ should cover that as
> well since I'm guessing any service would be using a modified version of
> the KiCad source dire
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> Mixing licenses is always tricky business. You risk licensing yourself
> into a corner. I am not an expert on licensing and I would never
> pretend otherwise. That being said, if the AGPLv3 license prevents us
> from using the SISL sour
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> I believe it's a fairly common practice to include a copy of the GPL in
> a project's source code so I will remove the GPL2 only part that Dick
> added to the top of the license file if that is not objectionable. I'm
> assuming that no ot
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:36 AM, Cirilo Bernardo
wrote:
[ snip ]
> The only really tricky part comes from the 'v3' bit - according to the FSF
> the AGPLv3 is not compatible with GPL2, and not even compatible with
> GPLv3 but OK to mix with GPLv3 (whatever that means - I can already
> hear some law
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Miguel Ángel Ajo wrote:
> I expect that to happen in the next years, to my eyes, KiCad to hardware
> is a bit what GCC was to software decades ago.
Definitely :)
http://www.ohwr.org/attachments/3840/OH-web.pdf
Cheers,
Javier
___
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> 2015-03-20 15:19 GMT+01:00 Mário Luzeiro :
>> This type of support and community is what they expect when pay for a
>> commercial product... if something is wrong.. they will ask the company for
>> support..
>> But, this is an issue in th
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski
wrote:
> Many thanks to all developers, funders & users for your help and support!
Thanks in particular to you, Tom, great job! And to the Raspberry Pi
Foundation for an important donation which has greatly helped in this
development.
Cheers,
Ja
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Vesa Solonen wrote:
> I must say I was a bit surprised of the energetic presentation after
> just following the thoughtfull and pretty patient discussion on the list...
There was some thoughtful discussion over beer the preceding night too
:) Congratulations to al
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Adam Wolf
wrote:
> Thanks everyone! Even though this was a lot of work from us at Wayne and
> Layne, what we did was only a drop in the bucket compared to what has
> already been done by the dev team and the OS X devs!
Adam, congratulations to you and the rest of
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:20 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> COPYRIGHT.txt was meant to be a convenience for devs to copy and paste
> the license into new source files. If it doesn't match what is in our
> source files then we should update COPYRIGHT.txt accordingly. I thought
> it was the same but
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> Regarding the GPL stuff, see:
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kicad-product-committers/kicad/product/view/head:/COPYRIGHT.txt
>
> Especially the top.
That text at the top should be changed (probably just erased) because
it is in contradict
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:45 AM, Mark Roszko wrote:
> Anyone know on the KiCAD GPLv2 mixing with GPLv3 code?
To complement Cirilo's answer: most of KiCad's source is GPL2+ (i.e.
"GPL2 or later"). The push and shove router including the upcoming
diff pair and length control/matching support is GP
Dear all,
I thought some of you might be interested in this recent piece by one
of our colleagues in the Communications group:
http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2015/02/kicad-software-gets-cern-treatment
Cheers,
Javier
___
Mailing list: https://l
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:02 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> I want to personally thank CERN and Javier Serrano for their generosity
> and hospitality. I felt at home with the entire CERN group and I cannot
> express my gratitude enough for everything. I hope to be able to this
> ag
What about a KiCad dinner on Saturday? Those who would like to join,
let me know off-list so I can book a table somewhere. Also, mobile
phone numbers for some of the CERN folks can be found in our public
phone book [1].
Cheers,
Javier
[1] https://phonebook.cern.ch
__
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 2:11 PM, David Perrenoud
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On the CERN roadmap there is as an item saying “Study ergonomics of various
> commercial/proprietary PCB applications”. In order to contribute to this, I
> have put on Dropbox some screenshots of the making of an overly simple
>
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Adam Wolf
wrote:
...
> Here's to doing as well in 2015 as we did in 2014!
It's been an amazing year, and I really look forward to seeing how our
collective plans for 2015 unfold. Exciting times ahead, no doubt.
Thank you all!
Javier
_
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> It official. I got my flight and hotel room booked so I'll be at FOSDEM
> barring any catastrophe. Please try to make it if you can. We can all
> poke fun at my dismal presentation skills. I'm looking forward to see
> as many of you as p
Dear all,
Here's the Call for Participation for the FOSS EDA Devroom in FOSDEM 2015:
http://www.ohwr.org/projects/ohr-meta/wiki/FOSDEM2015
Looking forward to meeting many of you there.
Javier
___
Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
Dear all,
Good news: my request for an EDA devroom in FOSDEM 2015 was accepted!
I will send out an official call for contributions in the next week or
two, but I wanted to give you a heads up so that you can start
thinking about coming and joining the fun. I think this is a very good
opportunity t
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Tim Hutt wrote:
> On 10 September 2014 10:25, Javier Serrano <
> javier.serrano.par...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> if one accepts the premise that KiCad should be very usable by a new user
>
>
> I think this is critical. It already looks lik
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:54 PM, Tim Hutt wrote:
[snip]
> Anyway, I've been following CERN's work on Kicad, and thought I'd give Kicad
> a try. These sorts of programs always seem to fail on basic usability things
> (like how to copy/paste) so I recorded my first ever Kicad session!
> Hopefully it
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 10:46 PM, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo
wrote:
> I would be very glad of joining you, I was planning to be there
> as I have interests in other projects and meeting other people too.
>
> Javier, could you take care of making a reservation for "our topic" :)
Yes, I sent a proposa
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
[snip]
> I am proposing that we move to a model more like the
> Linux kernel where there is a merge window for new features followed by
> a stabilization period.
[snip]
This looks like a very good plan to me. You can count on our help.
> 3)
Hello Margaret,
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 7:19 PM, Margaret Johnson
wrote:
> I am interested in donating money to CERN if the priority is on releasing
> stable builds. Before I do this, I'd like to understand:
CERN does not work independently of the KiCad project. In particular,
KiCad goes in th
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> With great respect and humility I am turning over KiCad project leadership to
>
>Mr. Wayne Stambaugh.
My best wishes to Wayne in his new role. I am looking forward to
collaborating with him and the rest of the KiCad community in this n
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Fabrizio Tappero
wrote:
> Hello Guys,
> just a quick mail to say that I have been to FOSDEM 2014 in Belgium. Program
> here:
> https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/days/
>
> Well, the conference was quite interesting with session dedicated to
> embedded SW and HW but no
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Andrea wrote:
> Hi,
> I tested your new Interactive Router, it's great!
>
> I had few crash, but I saved often! It stable enough to create a
> professional board.
Any extra details you can give would be useful, especially if the
crashes are reproducible.
> A lit
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Andrea wrote:
> thank you very much, works fine!
> I was looking under edit menu as in the previous implementation.
Andrea, there is some documentation at [1] (sources at [2] for the
time being) you can use to get started. There is also a video tutorial
prepared
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> Generally you should not expect me to beg to make my contributions.
Sorry to insist, but this is important for us. Neither Tom nor I asked
you to beg to make contributions. We did not even challenge your
decision to proceed after discussin
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio
wrote:
> I see the commits. Could have be useful to know before since both me
> and the cern people were already working on that.
I confirm we had a phone conversation with Lorenzo about this work and
were planning to write a blueprint for him
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Javier Serrano
wrote:
> Functional specifications can be discussed
> before even writing the technical specs, and would include things
> like:
>
> - What type of simulations should be possible? Spice, digital,
> S-parameter, IBIS for signa
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Oscad Team wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback and support! We are keen to work with the developers
> to come up with a blueprint. Could you let us know how to get started?
> Should we list down all the changes that we plan to make and submit for
> approval?
Orson al
ke up
>> this effort. But we have to discuss with our team members and finalise a few
>> things, as we have a few additional facilities (VHDL/Verilog code support,
>> design optimisation support, virtual breadboard etc.) in Oscad. We shall
>> revert back soon.
>>
>&g
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:11 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> Focusing the discussion will be the hardest part. And if that cannot be
> done, then
> nothing will happen.
A blueprint could help. I think any serious piece of work on KiCad
should be preceded by a blueprint submitted by the developer(s)
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio
wrote:
> Oh well, after all they are simply a 'comment' layer which is paired.
> AFAIK no special treatment is done on them. However a good & complete
> proposal for work order 4 would be interesting; I found the separate
> courtyard layers esp
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Oscad Team wrote:
> Dear Kicad developers,
>
> Greetings from Oscad Team, IIT Bombay, India! As you are already aware, we
> have developed Oscad a free and open source EDA Tool for circuit design,
> simulation, analysis and PCB design. Oscad uses KiCad for schemati
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Rick Walker wrote:
> Kicad is currently a moving target. The team doesn't provide "stable"
> builds and the whole system is liable to blow up at any time. It
> is even worse if one uses the "cloud-based" libraries which are under
> dynamic mutation.
KiCad cannot
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> Today is my 58th birthday, and it has become very clear to me recently that I
> am really
> tired of looking at poorly written KiCad source code. I am not long for this
> project.
Happy birthday Dick, and thanks for all the hard work.
Dear KiCad friends,
Here's a quick update on what we have been up to at CERN lately, and
also some words on plans for the immediate future, along with opinions
on some of the latest subjects discussed in the list:
Current developments: Orson is working on porting pcbnew tools to the
new tool fram
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
>
> As of 60 seconds ago, there is now
>
>/template/fp-lib-table.for-eagle-6.4.0
...
> Enjoy,
This is very important. It's great you're working on it. Thanks! We
were in the Geneva Hacker Space on Friday, presenting KiCad among
other thi
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio
wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 09:19:02PM +0100, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
>> Why don't you write a one A4-page long blueprint, discuss it on the list,
>> and if your time permits, code the thing?
>
> It was discussed a while ago on the list..
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> Now that the repo is back in good shape following my lapse in judgement
> (Thanks Dick!) I am happy to announce that the CERN OpenGL/Cairo
> rendering, push and shove router, and the new tool framework code has
> been committed to the testi
1 - 100 of 109 matches
Mail list logo
