On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Peter Brett <[email protected]> wrote: >> 1. Would any of the existing maintainers be able to devote more time >> to gEDA if they had financial support to do so ? > > In my case: yes. :-/ > > Peter
OK, so that's a 'yes' for question 1! Now for question 2 - money. A few weeks back I was seriously considering paying $5K for Altium. In the end I decided against it (closed source p*sses me off too much), but it did make me realise that I could justify spending that kind of money on pcb software. Now if we're thinking in terms of a $200K per year developer then $5K will achieve next to nothing - but let's think of alternatives. I can't remember the details, but I vaguely recall that a second Google Summer of code with funding of ~$15K would have allowed Anthony to finish the toporouter. http://www.linuxfund.org/projects/pcb/ tells me that $3330 allowed DJ to improve PCB's file import system. So we don't necessarily have to think in $100K's for achieving real results. Now many of us aren't in a position to spend money on PCB software - but what if two other members of our community were also able to afford $5K ? Perhaps three of us could chip in to fund a GSOC equivalent. If that allowed a result like finishing the toporouter (say), I could well judge that to be money well spent. If 7 other people came forward and it was $2K each I'd find it a no brainer. But I realise I'm really ignorant of my own community - am I the only one who would consider funding PCB development by others ? Are there 7 who could afford $2K ? Are there 20 who could afford $750 ? _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
