On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 01:37:05 +0100 Kai-Martin Knaak <[email protected]> wrote:
> Projects galore: > http://geda.seul.org/wiki/gsoc2010_projects > > The projects for gaf, gschem and pcb have even been labled with the > supposed difficulty. > > Two caveats: Google has a tendency to focus on projects that > aim in direction of some of their strategic goals. Unfortunately, > electronic hardware does not fit. So it has hot been accepted to GSoC > in 2010. The other caveat: Don't choose an overly ambitious project, > even if it is as cool as liquid nitrogen. Ask Anthony Blake for the > reason... > well we can't do anything about google's tendency, but write a convincing application i guess. i'm quite ambitious usually, but i know what i can do and what i can not. and i usually finish something, if i start and think the outcome will be useful (well... usually... and it may take a while... or two :) and having a deadline tends to help me a lot to finish a project, so i think this is a advantage of gsoc instead of contributing the "normal" foss way. the existing proposals i find interesting can be divided in two parts: stand-alone projects and modifications of existing applications. since i was only involved in hacking around gerbv (and there only on the gui layer), i think it would make more sense to try a stand-alone thingy. to sustain motivation i would be glade if the final product would scratch my own itch. my idea is some combination of the existing propsals: - Gschem parts manager or parts database (glue) - IPC Footprint Calculator (pcb) and my own idea: a stand-alone pcb footprint editor. one of the most boring and hideous things when creating a new layout is creating new footprints imho. using metric suffixes in pcb's .fp files helps, but it is still far from AWESOME :) editing is a pita too (due to the single reference point). creating a "Gerber to .pcb file exporter" (gerbv section of the proposals) could be interesting too. i don't need it but i can see its usefulness. the question is how often is this needed/requested? adding drc stuff to gerbv sounds also interesting although i'm not sure how feasable. i'm also thinking about applying for a gsoc project for etherboot or coreboot. that's not a threat, i just want to be overt. :) -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
