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-- Cut here -- From: Mikey Sklar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Ales Hvezda wrote: > Woo! :) Thanks for the talk report. It is turning out that > the MacOSX port of gEDA/gaf and PCB is quite important as well. OS/X seems to be particularly popular with some of the physical computing courses offered today through several universities. I can mention one example that I've seen for myself. NYU has their ITP program which nearly 90% of the students are using OS/X. Physical computing is a required class for these students to take. Oddly enough the school teaches the students to use Windows based products for schematic capture, pcb layout, and all of the microcontroller development. I would deem this dual os environment unnecessary for the level of work that is being done. The open source tools would be a very nice replacement for those who wish to be entirely mac based. > Completely agreed. So, where else should we advertise? Three ideas come to mind. 1) Arrange for gEDA talks at these schools - MIT Media Labs - NYU ITP - Parsons School of Design - Harvard's Visual and Environment Studies - CMU School of Art and Human Computer Interaction Institute - others... 2) Write the first book on "Open Source Physical Computing Tools". 3) gEDA howto articles in monthly zines: - Everyday Practical Electronics - Nuts and Volts - Linux Journal - Wired - etc. > Yes, the debian and redhat packages are very important. I've > finding myself also installing more and more things via the automated > systems rather than installing from source. The fink packages too (OS/X users higher level interface to apt-get/dpkg). Charles Lepple has been doing a fine job trying to keep these fink packages up to date. > As Karel pointed out, opencollector.org seems to be the only > central place. Maybe we should advertise it more as well. > Anybody else have some more ideas/comments? Thanks. opencollector.org really is has a nice collection of tools, looks like it too just needs some promotion. I think its time for a book. A collaborative "Open Source Electronics Howto" might also work.
