Hi Stefan, > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stefan Tauner > Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 1:49 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Google Summer of Code 2011 > > 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 > >
I hope not to discourage you ;-) Fped is a footprint editor for Kicad "modules". I'm currently coding an addition for creating pcb footprints, which is almost done, I only have to create and send a patch to the main dev of fped. Information regarding fped can be found here: http://people.openmoko.org/werner/fped/gui.html and here: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab/wiki/PCB/fped The source lives here: http://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/eda/fped/ I'm trying to code a footprint wizard myself at: https://github.com/bert/pcb-fpw And https://launchpad.net/pcb-fpw And https://github.com/bert/pcb-fpw/wiki/User-Manual-for-pcb-gfpw This one is aimed to be more resembling with the IPC Footprint Calculator without violating IP and such. I hope to release version 0.0.11 this month. Just my EUR 0.02 Kind regards, Bert Timmerman. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
