Hello, my name is Sven Lemke and I am a student of aerospace engineering at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
I would like to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2008 program because it is just the perfect solution for me to spend my free time learning/doing something useful for the open source community and not having to do it all for free. This doesn't mean that I will leave this development community as soon as my part is finished but I am thinking of it as a long term further education besides my usual engineering studies. I was planning to contribute to an open source project for a loong time and when the GSoC program came to my attention a few days ago I decided to give it a try and contribute code to the PCB project. I am using it regularly in my spare time for my own hardware developments and in my opinion it should be given more attention because it's one of the best free tools for this job and nice to work with. I had been using Eagle CAD for years but found it to be too unflexible, slow and buggy. I will be working on the IPC-7351A SMT land pattern generator and the IPC-356 netlist output export module. I do have some limited coding experience in PHP, C, Basic, Pascal and assembly on x86 and several microcontrollers but not yet with managing bigger projects like the gEDA suite of tools. It will take me some time to get used to this kind of group tasks. Best regards, Sven _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
