Javier,
Thanks a lot for leading this from CERN,
I think this can only be good for KiCad.
Also thanks to Maciej and Tomasz for working on the technical side.
Miguel Angel Ajo
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On Friday, 12 de April de 2013 at 11:42, Brian Sidebotham wrote:
> Hi Javier,
>
> Thank-you for your email, it's very exciting news for KiCad.
>
> I have already got projects underway using the CERN Open Hardware Licence.
> That is a great initiative!
>
> It's really nice that you've put so much effort into explaining where you are
> coming from and what you are prepared to do for KiCad. Thank-you for taking
> the time to put the email together and letting us know.
>
> It feels like exciting times ahead!
>
> Best Regards, Brian.
>
>
> On 11 April 2013 14:22, Javier Serrano <javier.serrano.par...@gmail.com
> (mailto:javier.serrano.par...@gmail.com)> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > As you know, the BE-CO-HT section at CERN has been contributing to Kicad
> > for some time now. We see this involvement as a key part of our activities
> > regarding Open Source Hardware [1]. We are also contributing to the
> > adoption of VHDL and SystemVerilog in the Icarus Verilog simulator, so as
> > to enable cross-language simulation. Other related activities include the
> > operation on the Open Hardware Repository [2] and the development of the
> > CERN Open Hardware Licence [3].
> >
> > Regarding our contribution to Kicad, it took us some time to put our act
> > together, but I believe we are now ready to announce that development has
> > started in earnest. We have come up with a preliminary roadmap [4], which
> > has been discussed with the main Kicad developers [5]. We have agreed that
> > this strategy is at least a good enough base to start development work.
> >
> > The main actors involved on our side will be:
> >
> > - Maciej Sumiński, aka "Orson". He is going to be with us for a year within
> > CERN's Technical Student Programme, working full time on Kicad. He started
> > in March. He has already started working on a new View component for Kicad
> > as you saw yesterday.
> > - Tomasz Włostowski, aka "Tom" or "Tomek", Orson's supervisor. Tom works on
> > hardware design most of the time, but is also developing a Push & Shove
> > router for Kicad.
> >
> > We are very excited about the opportunity to contribute to Kicad, and I
> > would like to thank all Kicad developers (in particular the main
> > developers: Jean-Pierre, Dick and Wayne) for bringing Kicad up to a level
> > of quality and features where we would judge it worthwhile to invest in. We
> > very much look forward to collaborating with you all.
> >
> > In addition to the manpower I described, we have a small budget we
> > sometimes use to get work done through companies. If browsing Kicad code
> > you see files with a CERN copyright statement and an author either from
> > among the main Kicad developers or another company (only Igalia [6] so
> > far), that's the way that code was contributed. We believe one way of
> > making Kicad sustainable and reliable for professional use is to have
> > companies sell support contracts for Kicad, and companies which contribute
> > code to Kicad will of course be ideally placed to sell such contracts. This
> > should sound familiar to people who know how many of the major Linux
> > distributions work from a financial point of view. There are probably other
> > ways to reach these goals, and I am very interested in this topic, so
> > please don't hesitate to contribute ideas in this domain.
> >
> > Our budget for Kicad development is as I said very modest. If you think
> > what we are doing is useful and you would like to help us work better and
> > faster, please consider donating. CERN's Knowledge Transfer Group has set
> > up a donations page [7], as part of a global fund-raising effort for
> > projects which present an interest to society, even if they are not in the
> > core mandate of CERN (Particle Physics research). There is also a link to
> > the donations page from the CERN Kicad wiki [4]. I would also like to ask
> > you to forward this link to whoever you think might be interested. The
> > donations page is in a very primitive state right now. It does not allow
> > payment through Paypal, credit cards or other methods yet. You are
> > requested to send a message to cern.and.soci...@cern.ch
> > (mailto:cern.and.soci...@cern.ch) and then you get bank account details
> > which allow you to make a money transfer. This is a bit inconvenient but I
> > can tell you any contribution at this point in time will be very useful to
> > go faster through the roadmap.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help. We are really looking forward to working
> > with all of you. Cheers,
> >
> > Javier
> >
> > [1] https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=190126
> > [2] http://www.ohwr.org/
> > [3] http://www.ohwr.org/cernohl
> > [4] http://www.ohwr.org/projects/cern-kicad/wiki
> > [5] Referred to as "Main Authors" in file AUTHORS.txt of the Kicad sources.
> > [6] http://www.igalia.com/
> > [7] http://cernandsociety.web.cern.ch/technology/kicad-development
> >
> >
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