Re: [Kicad-developers] Project leader announcement

Congratulations guys: KiCon, The Linux Foundation, KiCad Services Corporation... The project is definitely changing gears, and it's very exciting to see. Keep rocking! Javier On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 3:29 PM Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > I wanted keep everyone up to date with my employment situation

Re: [Kicad-developers] Project annuouncement.

Great news, and quite a milestone for KiCad! Congratulations Wayne! Cheers, Javier On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 8:05 PM Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > For those you who haven't heard yet, I made the announcement yesterday > at KiCon that I am now work for WIT and I will be working full time on > KiCad. I

Re: [Kicad-developers] New lead developer announcement.

Congratulations John! And thanks for all the great work so far. Javier PS. I don't know if somebody already posted this. The video of Wayne's talk in FOSDEM is already online: https://video.fosdem.org/2019/AW1.125/kicad.mp4 https://video.fosdem.org/2019/AW1.125/kicad.webm On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at

Re: [Kicad-developers] CERN Donation link?

Hello, I have little to add to what Wayne said. Just a few clarifications: - Donors to KiCad donate because they trust we will use the money correctly. For practical reasons, they cannot decide what specifically will be done with the money, even if we are always happy to read their suggestions.

Re: [Kicad-developers] License question

I forgot to link to an initiative from FSFE for those interested in best practices for documenting the licence of Free and Open Source projects: https://reuse.software/ Cheers, Javier On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 12:02 PM, Javier Serrano < javier.serrano.par...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi St

Re: [Kicad-developers] License question

Hi Steve, some comments inlined below: On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 4:13 PM, Steven A. Falco wrote: > I'm packaging KiCad for Fedora. The web page: http://kicad-pcb.org/about/ > licenses/ states that KiCad is GPLv3 or greater. Yet, the source files > (for example eeschema/edit_bitmap.cpp) still say

Re: [Kicad-developers] Eeschema connectivity storage

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 8:43 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: > Has CERN began work on that yet? > Yes, Jon is actually working for a CERN order. Sorry for the confusion. We usually keep Wayne in the loop so we are all on the same page. We worked with him on the work package

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] 3D models repository

On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 3:33 AM, Oliver Walters < oliver.henry.walt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Let's take a step back: > > Currently we have the 3Dmodels license - https://github.com/KiCad/ > packages3D/wiki/Model-Licencing - which is modelled after the GEDA > project (as easyw mentioned previously).

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] 3D models repository

On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Oliver Walters < oliver.henry.walt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > After that, people who contribute new symbols/fottprints/models should >> make copyright and license notices part of that submission, exactly as for >> source code. > > > This is going to be very

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] 3D models repository

On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 1:21 AM, Oliver Walters < oliver.henry.walt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Cirilo, > > Can we stipulate as part of the license file that any contributors agree > implicitly that their generated models are released as public domain? i.e. > don't require explicit release from every

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] 3D models repository

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 5:43 PM, easyw wrote: > Hi Javier, > > atm our 3d script generated library has already a license similar to geda > > https://github.com/KiCad/packages3D/wiki/Model-Licencing > > Particularly what has been stated there is the freedom to share the 3D >

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] 3D models repository

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 8:34 PM, José Ignacio wrote: > PS: another inconvenience for the license is section 3.a, attribution. > There is no automated way to generate a proper attribution list from the > schematic/layout, since each library is housed in a different

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] 3D models repository

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Simon Richter <simon.rich...@hogyros.de> wrote: > Hi, > > On 29.06.2017 12:18, Javier Serrano wrote: > > > I agree the creative side is stronger for symbols than for footprints. > > Copyrightability is, as you well point out, a su

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] 3D models repository

Hi Jose, On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 5:33 PM, José Ignacio wrote: > My two cents. All this copyleft licensing stuff for _libraries_ is > over-complicating things, copyright on stuff like footprints and accurate > 3d models is fairly tenuous as the representation of the work

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] 3D models repository

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 10:16 AM, Oliver Walters < oliver.henry.walt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Would it be sufficient to drop the "Copyright (C) 2017 KiCad" header? > I don't think so, sorry! When you include a license header in a file, you are giving users more rights than they initially had. Only

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] 3D models repository

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 3:27 AM, Oliver Walters < oliver.henry.walt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wayne, others, > > A lot of input here, thanks everyone. > > Based on the suggestions above, my proposal is as follows: > > >

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] 3D models repository

it makes sense that I clarify that with a copyright statement before the licensing paragraph. Hope it makes sense! Cheers, Javier On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Javier Serrano < javier.serrano.par...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry, I forgot to answer this: > > On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Oliv

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] 3D models repository

Sorry, I forgot to answer this: On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Oliver Walters < oliver.henry.walt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wayne, Maciej, et al, > > This has been sitting in my //todo for a while. Can I get some > clarification on the LICENSE issue and then I will ensure it is applied to > the

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] 3D models repository

> The easiest way to include the license is to put a file containing > the > > > text in the libraries repository. Alternatively, the text could be > > > stored in the 'License' field for symbols or 'Doc' property for > > > footprints, but

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] 3D models repository

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 6:21 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > I'm still waiting for our friends at CERN for an answer on library > licensing. We are leaning towards CC-SA with the use exception clause. > I turning out to be the longest time ever to write a single sentence. ;)

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] 3D models repository

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 11:55 PM, Cirilo Bernardo wrote: > > That depends on what you mean by 'free'. If the output is Public Domain > then > anyone can use it for whatever purpose they like and have no obligations. > Strictly speaking, I don't think we can actually

Re: [Kicad-developers] FOSDEM

On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Simon Richter wrote: > > I ended up at the bar across the street. Dinner today? > > I am organizing the EDA devroom dinner this year as usual, and I thought we had all the KiCad people. Discussion has happened in the EDA devroom list [1].

Re: [Kicad-developers] Transferring KiCad Librarians team ownership

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > Thank you Carl for all of you efforts in maintaining the KiCad > libraries. The KiCad libraries have come a long way. > I'd like to join Wayne in thanking you. It's fantastic to see how many people offer their time

Re: [Kicad-developers] FOSDEM 2017 EDA devroom: call for participation

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > > Sounds good to me. Would these tutorials replace the hour long beginner > tutorial that we discussed during our phone conversation? > Yes, there are already good beginner tutorials on the web for KiCad 4, like

Re: [Kicad-developers] FOSDEM 2017 EDA devroom: call for participation

On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 6:08 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > > I signed up for my usual KiCad project status talk. Did You, Tom, or > Orson sign up for the KiCad tutorial? If not, do you want me to create > that talk? > > We discussed this morning. We are thinking of two

[Kicad-developers] FOSDEM 2017 EDA devroom: call for participation

Dear all, The call for participation in the FOSDEM 2017 EDA devroom is open: http://www.ohwr.org/projects/ohr-meta/wiki/FOSDEM2017 Feel free to submit proposals for a talk, tutorial or demo, and to pass this on to anybody you think could be interested. Cheers, Javier

[Kicad-developers] KiCad hackathon starting now

Dear all, Greetings from the library of the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo, in Brazil. We are just starting the hackathon [1] now, making sure everybody has a good clone of the repo. Tom and Orson are then going to explain the basics of the KiCad code tree and the available work

Re: [Kicad-developers] kicad promotion in help menu

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > > On 10/6/2016 3:23 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 08:51:54AM +0200, jp charras wrote: > >> Le 06/10/2016 à 08:13, Cirilo Bernardo a écrit : > >>> Hi folks, > >>> > >>> Any comments on this

Re: [Kicad-developers] Integrated Simulator

Orson, Tom, AWESOME work! Congratulations! On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote: ... > The code is currently available in the ngspice branch on Tom's GitHub > [2] for review & testing. It's a big feature, so we didn't want to push > it immediately

Re: [Kicad-developers] CERN trip update.

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 5:31 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > I just wanted to give everyone a quick heads up about the CERN trip. > First I would like to say thank you the CERN folks for their generosity > in hosting a KiCad developers hackathon. We also took a trip to visit >

Re: [Kicad-developers] OCE and KiCad

On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > One thing I noticed is the OCE license > is LGPL 2.1 not 2.1+. I do not know if that is an issue for us. I > suspect not but I do not claim to be a licensing expert so if anyone > else knows if this OK or not please

Re: [Kicad-developers] Announcement, CERN trip.

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 8:08 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > I believe you need to be either a student or a professor to stay at the > CERN hostel. You need to contact CERN directly for more information > about staying at the hostel. Javier may be able to help out on that >

Re: [Kicad-developers] [kicad-users] Gnucap and Google summer of code

Al, I forward this to the KiCad developers list. Cheers, Javier On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 10:20 PM, al davis ad...@freeelectron.net [kicad-users] wrote: > > > Gnucap will again be participating in the Google Summer of Code, > as part of the GNU project. > > Why am I

Re: [Kicad-developers] FOSDEM EDA devroom schedule now final

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Mário Luzeiro wrote: > I hope they will record the presentation from Wayne as they did last year. It > was a very helpful for me (and I believe it should be for other kicad > developers) It helped to get a good picture of the project status and

[Kicad-developers] FOSDEM EDA devroom schedule now final

Dear all, The schedule for the EDA devroom in FOSDEM 2016 is now final: https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/eda/ I think the line-up is quite impressive. For those of you who can attend, it should be a great opportunity to discuss face to face with developers and users of KiCad and other

[Kicad-developers] OpenSSL license

Hi, the thread about libcurl made me think about a recent discussion I read about OpenSSL licensing. The OpenSSL license seems to be incompatible with GPL [1]. They do have plans to migrate to Apache 2 [2], which is compatible with GPL, but they're not there yet. Cheers, Javier [1]

Re: [Kicad-developers] OpenSSL license

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:00 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote: > So I don't think we have the above mentioned openssl problem as such > anymore. I don't think that building with a libcurl with openssl and > distributing those binaries violate any licenses, but I am not sure. I >

Re: [Kicad-developers] FOSDEM 2016

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > I just submitted my request to present at the EDA dev room for FOSDEM > 2016. After last years unexpected EDA dev room success, I am hoping to > see more of you at this years EDA dev room. I believe we are getting a

Re: [Kicad-developers] About collaboration, simulation, documentation, organisation, usability and documentation

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 3:57 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 11/4/2015 9:01 PM, Stefano Rossi wrote: >> Also, it isn't clear the goals. Are CERNs goals kicad goals? I have >> learned that if you have no clear goals you will waste time in useless >> features. Feature creep.

Re: [Kicad-developers] Looking for complex board designs

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > I know it's noisy but I want developer input on this as well as website > developer input. I think the developers have a right to know how their > work is being used and have a say in it. The CERN folks may want some

Re: [Kicad-developers] RC2 blockers?

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 12:39 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > Yes. The P router still has a serious segfault issue. I've talked to > Tom about it and he is working on it. As soon as the fixes are > committed, I will be rolling out rc2. I'm hoping it will be soon. Last time

Re: [Kicad-developers] Looking for complex board designs

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Mário Luzeiro wrote: > That is good news. Olimex precedes Arduino and the boom of opensource > hardware we are at moment. I remember long years ago that Olimex was already > a reference in embedded systems with their development boards. > It

Re: [Kicad-developers] Looking for complex board designs

policy for projects where they provide >>>> KiCad design files, and figure out the policy for ones where they don't >>>> later. >>>> >>>> Cut the problem in half, and tackle the easy one :) >>>> >>>> Adam Wolf >>>

[Kicad-developers] FOSDEM 2016 EDA devroom Call for Participation

Dear all, The Call for Participation for the FOSDEM 2016 EDA devroom is out: http://www.ohwr.org/projects/ohr-meta/wiki/FOSDEM2016 Please consider submitting a contribution or at least coming and joining all your KiCad friends. It will also be a good opportunity to see what the other FOSS EDA

[Kicad-developers] FOSDEM EDA Devroom confirmed

Friends, Please reserve Saturday 30 January 2016 in your agendas, and try to join us in Brussels for the FOSDEM 2016 EDA devroom. Last year's devroom was a great opportunity to meet other KiCad people and also to discuss with developers of other projects like GEDA, QUCS, GHDL, etc. I will write

Re: [Kicad-developers] KiCad usability (was Re: cvpcb alternative)

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 3:51 AM, timofonic timofonic wrote: > Mailing list seems like a disaster place to sniff organization. > What about connecting and merging that information? > What about using a wiki? We keep track of things we see on the mailing list and other forums

Re: [Kicad-developers] Version 4 stable branch rc1 released.

On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 1:11 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > Thank you to everyone who has made this possible. It's been a lot of > work but it's also been a hell of a lot fun. I think I hear a couple of > adult beverages in my refrigerator calling my name. Indeed quite a

Re: [Kicad-developers] How about being clear about what the license of different KiCad parts?

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Nick Østergaard oe.n...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-08-27 14:40 GMT+02:00 Javier Serrano javier.serrano.par...@gmail.com: Well done guys. The site looks amazing! I think this is also an appropriate moment to thank the fine folks who maintained the Confluence site all

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Update the PCB from schematics in one click

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Nick Østergaard oe.n...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed there are some hilarious people/trolls in there, it is both fun at sad to see how some people is not knowing anything about something, but still persists to say that that something is crap, when 95% of their

Re: [Kicad-developers] thoughts on dependency on SISL library

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Javier Serrano javier.serrano.par...@gmail.com wrote: Other Usage You can be released from the requirements of the license by purchasing a commercial license. Buying such a license is mandatory as soon as you develop commercial activities involving the SISL

Re: [Kicad-developers] thoughts on dependency on SISL library

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:36 AM, Cirilo Bernardo cirilo.berna...@gmail.com wrote: [ snip ] The only really tricky part comes from the 'v3' bit - according to the FSF the AGPLv3 is not compatible with GPL2, and not even compatible with GPLv3 but OK to mix with GPLv3 (whatever that means - I can

Re: [Kicad-developers] thoughts on dependency on SISL library

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@gmail.com wrote: I think anyone who provides KiCad as a service should make the KiCad source available. It seems to me that the GPL2+ should cover that as well since I'm guessing any service would be using a modified version of the

[Kicad-developers] Looking for KiCad success stories

Dear all, For the annual report of the CERN and Society Foundation, we are looking for success stories which could illustrate the impact of CERN contributions. I know it's a bit early, but if you know of any, be it in academia, industry or other, please let me know off list. I will also write to

Re: [Kicad-developers] thoughts on dependency on SISL library

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@gmail.com wrote: I believe it's a fairly common practice to include a copy of the GPL in a project's source code so I will remove the GPL2 only part that Dick added to the top of the license file if that is not objectionable. I'm

Re: [Kicad-developers] Looking for KiCad success stories

+mrluzeiro=ua...@lists.launchpad.net] on behalf of Javier Serrano [javier.serrano.par...@gmail.com] Sent: 26 March 2015 19:02 To: KiCad Developers Subject: [Kicad-developers] Looking for KiCad success stories Dear all, For the annual report of the CERN and Society Foundation, we are looking

Re: [Kicad-developers] Diff Pairs Length tuning in the product branch

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski tomasz.wlostow...@cern.ch wrote: Many thanks to all developers, funders users for your help and support! Thanks in particular to you, Tom, great job! And to the Raspberry Pi Foundation for an important donation which has greatly helped in this

Re: [Kicad-developers] FOSDEM videos

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Vesa Solonen vesa.solo...@aalto.fi wrote: I must say I was a bit surprised of the energetic presentation after just following the thoughtfull and pretty patient discussion on the list... There was some thoughtful discussion over beer the preceding night too :)

Re: [Kicad-developers] 3D Viewer crushes whole KiCAD with this file

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:20 AM, Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@gmail.com wrote: COPYRIGHT.txt was meant to be a convenience for devs to copy and paste the license into new source files. If it doesn't match what is in our source files then we should update COPYRIGHT.txt accordingly. I thought it

Re: [Kicad-developers] Mac OS X nightlies are up!

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Adam Wolf adamw...@feelslikeburning.com wrote: Thanks everyone! Even though this was a lot of work from us at Wayne and Layne, what we did was only a drop in the bucket compared to what has already been done by the dev team and the OS X devs! Adam,

Re: [Kicad-developers] 3D Viewer crushes whole KiCAD with this file

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Nick Østergaard oe.n...@gmail.com wrote: Regarding the GPL stuff, see: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kicad-product-committers/kicad/product/view/head:/COPYRIGHT.txt Especially the top. That text at the top should be changed (probably just erased) because it is

Re: [Kicad-developers] 3D Viewer crushes whole KiCAD with this file

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:45 AM, Mark Roszko mark.ros...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone know on the KiCAD GPLv2 mixing with GPLv3 code? To complement Cirilo's answer: most of KiCad's source is GPL2+ (i.e. GPL2 or later). The push and shove router including the upcoming diff pair and length

[Kicad-developers] KiCad in the (CERN) news

Dear all, I thought some of you might be interested in this recent piece by one of our colleagues in the Communications group: http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2015/02/kicad-software-gets-cern-treatment Cheers, Javier ___ Mailing list:

Re: [Kicad-developers] FOSDEM Update

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:02 AM, Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@gmail.com wrote: I want to personally thank CERN and Javier Serrano for their generosity and hospitality. I felt at home with the entire CERN group and I cannot express my gratitude enough for everything. I hope to be able

Re: [Kicad-developers] KiCad Usability

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 2:11 PM, David Perrenoud david.perren...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, On the CERN roadmap there is as an item saying “Study ergonomics of various commercial/proprietary PCB applications”. In order to contribute to this, I have put on Dropbox some screenshots of the making

Re: [Kicad-developers] Great job in 2014, folks!

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Adam Wolf adamw...@feelslikeburning.com wrote: ... Here's to doing as well in 2015 as we did in 2014! It's been an amazing year, and I really look forward to seeing how our collective plans for 2015 unfold. Exciting times ahead, no doubt. Thank you all! Javier

Re: [Kicad-developers] FOSEM

On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@gmail.com wrote: It official. I got my flight and hotel room booked so I'll be at FOSDEM barring any catastrophe. Please try to make it if you can. We can all poke fun at my dismal presentation skills. I'm looking forward to see as

[Kicad-developers] FOSDEM 2015 EDA Devroom Call for Participation

Dear all, Here's the Call for Participation for the FOSS EDA Devroom in FOSDEM 2015: http://www.ohwr.org/projects/ohr-meta/wiki/FOSDEM2015 Looking forward to meeting many of you there. Javier ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers

[Kicad-developers] FOSDEM 2015 EDA devroom

Dear all, Good news: my request for an EDA devroom in FOSDEM 2015 was accepted! I will send out an official call for contributions in the next week or two, but I wanted to give you a heads up so that you can start thinking about coming and joining the fun. I think this is a very good opportunity

Re: [Kicad-developers] Usability test.

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:54 PM, Tim Hutt tdh...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Anyway, I've been following CERN's work on Kicad, and thought I'd give Kicad a try. These sorts of programs always seem to fail on basic usability things (like how to copy/paste) so I recorded my first ever Kicad session!

Re: [Kicad-developers] Usability test.

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Tim Hutt tdh...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 September 2014 10:25, Javier Serrano javier.serrano.par...@gmail.com wrote: if one accepts the premise that KiCad should be very usable by a new user I think this is critical. It already looks like some people

Re: [Kicad-developers] Project proposal

On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@verizon.net wrote: [snip] I am proposing that we move to a model more like the Linux kernel where there is a merge window for new features followed by a stabilization period. [snip] This looks like a very good plan to me. You can

Re: [Kicad-developers] FOSDEM biggest open-source Europen conference just finished

On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 10:46 PM, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo mangel...@redhat.com wrote: I would be very glad of joining you, I was planning to be there as I have interests in other projects and meeting other people too. Javier, could you take care of making a reservation for our topic :) Yes, I

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable Builds

Hello Margaret, On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 7:19 PM, Margaret Johnson happyday.mjohn...@gmail.com wrote: I am interested in donating money to CERN if the priority is on releasing stable builds. Before I do this, I'd like to understand: CERN does not work independently of the KiCad project. In

Re: [Kicad-developers] New Project Leader

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Dick Hollenbeck d...@softplc.com wrote: With great respect and humility I am turning over KiCad project leadership to Mr. Wayne Stambaugh. My best wishes to Wayne in his new role. I am looking forward to collaborating with him and the rest of the KiCad

Re: [Kicad-developers] FOSDEM biggest open-source Europen conference just finished

On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Fabrizio Tappero fabrizio.tapp...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Guys, just a quick mail to say that I have been to FOSDEM 2014 in Belgium. Program here: https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/days/ Well, the conference was quite interesting with session dedicated to

Re: [Kicad-developers] build kicad with Interactive Router

On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Andrea serr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I tested your new Interactive Router, it's great! I had few crash, but I saved often! It stable enough to create a professional board. Any extra details you can give would be useful, especially if the crashes are

Re: [Kicad-developers] build kicad with Interactive Router

On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Andrea serr...@gmail.com wrote: thank you very much, works fine! I was looking under edit menu as in the previous implementation. Andrea, there is some documentation at [1] (sources at [2] for the time being) you can use to get started. There is also a video

Re: [Kicad-developers] New layer ids

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Dick Hollenbeck d...@softplc.com wrote: Generally you should not expect me to beg to make my contributions. Sorry to insist, but this is important for us. Neither Tom nor I asked you to beg to make contributions. We did not even challenge your decision to proceed

Re: [Kicad-developers] New layer ids

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio l.marcanto...@logossrl.com wrote: I see the commits. Could have be useful to know before since both me and the cern people were already working on that. I confirm we had a phone conversation with Lorenzo about this work and were planning to

Re: [Kicad-developers] Requesting your co-operation for new version of Oscad, a free and open source EDA tool

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Javier Serrano javier.serrano.par...@gmail.com wrote: Functional specifications can be discussed before even writing the technical specs, and would include things like: - What type of simulations should be possible? Spice, digital, S-parameter, IBIS

Re: [Kicad-developers] Requesting your co-operation for new version of Oscad, a free and open source EDA tool

support, design optimisation support, virtual breadboard etc.) in Oscad. We shall revert back soon. Cheers Oscad Team On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Maciej Sumiński maciej.sumin...@cern.ch wrote: On 05/26/2014 05:04 PM, Javier Serrano wrote: On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Oscad Team

Re: [Kicad-developers] CERN work package 4 (Extend number of layers)

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:11 AM, Dick Hollenbeck d...@softplc.com wrote: Focusing the discussion will be the hardest part. And if that cannot be done, then nothing will happen. A blueprint could help. I think any serious piece of work on KiCad should be preceded by a blueprint submitted by

Re: [Kicad-developers] CERN work package 4 (Extend number of layers)

On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio l.marcanto...@logossrl.com wrote: Oh well, after all they are simply a 'comment' layer which is paired. AFAIK no special treatment is done on them. However a good complete proposal for work order 4 would be interesting; I found the separate

Re: [Kicad-developers] Requesting your co-operation for new version of Oscad, a free and open source EDA tool

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Oscad Team oscad.t...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Kicad developers, Greetings from Oscad Team, IIT Bombay, India! As you are already aware, we have developed Oscad a free and open source EDA Tool for circuit design, simulation, analysis and PCB design. Oscad uses

Re: [Kicad-developers] Forward-compatibility in s-expression formats

On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Rick Walker wal...@omnisterra.com wrote: Kicad is currently a moving target. The team doesn't provide stable builds and the whole system is liable to blow up at any time. It is even worse if one uses the cloud-based libraries which are under dynamic mutation.

Re: [Kicad-developers] KIPRJMOD appears to be broken.

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Dick Hollenbeck d...@softplc.com wrote: Today is my 58th birthday, and it has become very clear to me recently that I am really tired of looking at poorly written KiCad source code. I am not long for this project. Happy birthday Dick, and thanks for all

[Kicad-developers] Update from CERN

Dear KiCad friends, Here's a quick update on what we have been up to at CERN lately, and also some words on plans for the immediate future, along with opinions on some of the latest subjects discussed in the list: Current developments: Orson is working on porting pcbnew tools to the new tool

Re: [Kicad-developers] Eagle footprint HOWTO

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Dick Hollenbeck d...@softplc.com wrote: As of 60 seconds ago, there is now kicad_source/template/fp-lib-table.for-eagle-6.4.0 ... Enjoy, This is very important. It's great you're working on it. Thanks! We were in the Geneva Hacker Space on Friday,

Re: [Kicad-developers] A tribute to KiCad quality

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio l.marcanto...@logossrl.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 09:19:02PM +0100, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote: Why don't you write a one A4-page long blueprint, discuss it on the list, and if your time permits, code the thing? It was discussed a

Re: [Kicad-developers] Announcement

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@verizon.netwrote: Now that the repo is back in good shape following my lapse in judgement (Thanks Dick!) I am happy to announce that the CERN OpenGL/Cairo rendering, push and shove router, and the new tool framework code has been

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad distribution method for users - some updates

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Dick Hollenbeck d...@softplc.com wrote: I do see value in it. Only you can say if that value makes it worth your time. Folks encountering KiCad for the first time often will install from the repo. Only later will they yearn for the new goodies, which can

Re: [Kicad-developers] Push and shove router

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Martijn Kuipers martijn.kuip...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome work! On Sep 18, 2013, at 8:50 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski tomasz.wlostow...@cern.ch wrote: On 09/18/2013 09:48 PM, Miguel Angel wrote: Just one question, what's the license for GAL/geometry/tool

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad presented at Fosdem

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Fabrizio Tappero fabrizio.tapp...@gmail.com wrote: well Fosdem is s very generic divulgative conf. on open source activities with sw engieers attending for sure. how about having a look at some 2012 videos/slides? FWIW, we presented our Open Hardware

Re: [Kicad-developers] boost_root driven by https

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 3:39 AM, Dick Hollenbeck d...@softplc.com wrote: Brian, thank you for your truly exceptional and world class work in bringing the software stack necessary for windows python scripting to fruition. Thank you for believing in my vision, and in my a-mingw-us work, and

Re: [Kicad-developers] The KiCad GAL new release

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 4:28 AM, Alex G. mr.nuke...@gmail.com wrote: The release discussion aside, what I was focusing on in the previous email was getting kicad GAL into mainline and getting it to be fully functional -- where getting is to be understood as someone please come do this. I

Re: [Kicad-developers] Introducing CERN BE-CO-HT

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Brian Sidebotham brian.sidebot...@gmail.com wrote: It's really nice that you've put so much effort into explaining where you are coming from and what you are prepared to do for KiCad. Thank-you for taking the time to put the email together and letting us

[Kicad-developers] Introducing CERN BE-CO-HT

Dear all, As you know, the BE-CO-HT section at CERN has been contributing to Kicad for some time now. We see this involvement as a key part of our activities regarding Open Source Hardware [1]. We are also contributing to the adoption of VHDL and SystemVerilog in the Icarus Verilog simulator, so

Re: [Kicad-developers] CERN plans for Kicad

On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 10:01 PM, l.marcanto...@logossrl.com wrote: I'd already seen that list before... anyway some things are already in motion (I'm doing the layer limit removal thing, for example). This reply in the list to an off-list message might have been confusing for some, so here's

Re: [Kicad-developers] Decision taken

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Dick Hollenbeck d...@softplc.com wrote: The gEDA project will not take this lying down.  I suggest we give serious attention soon to writing conversion programs from all of their formats.  It's weird having to think about competing here.  But I have been