Greetings from FreeCAD land! Last weekend the FreeCAD community had a very small gathering in Springfield, Il. While we only had a handful of folks attending in person, this was our third North American meetup and our seventh or eighth real world gathering. (Our big meeting is every February in Brussels and timed to correspond with Fosdem). For the last couple years, we've been meeting in conjunction with the KiCAD community.
Anyway, the meetup in Springfield was dominated by interest in CAM. Almost every attendee is either working on CAM or connected to a makerspace that wants to use it. One of the highlights was a zoom meeting with Neil Gershenfeld from MIT Center for Bits and Atoms and founder of the FAB Academy. They are very anxious to incorporate more FOSS software in their curriculum and are pushing FreeCAD hard to develop multi-axis CAM capability. They are also willing to provide equipment or other resources to accelerate development. A few of us had also attended LinuxCNC meetups in the past and one sentiment that was expressed repeatedly was; "We need a closer relationship with the LinuxCNC guys!" so here I am to get that rolling. I guess to start things off; Are you guys interested in a closer relationship and exploring some joint development? Is this the best place to communicate? Cheers -- Brad Collette (sliptonic) _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
