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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] A FOSS EDA dev room for FOSDEM 2015
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On Tue, 2014-09-02 at 19:49 +0200, Bert Timmerman wrote:
> >    
> Hi all,
> 
> FOSDEM is on January 31st, 2015 and February 1st, 2015 in Brussels, 
> Belgium, Europe, Earth.
> 
> I'm contemplating to go for the odd chance to meet other (gEDA) 
> developers and/or users, as Brussels is not that far away for me, just a 
> 2 hour drive from Amsterdam and not slightly longer by hi-speed rail link.
> 
> I'm not going to speak to an audience for reasons of not having prepared 
> a speak and having issues with hearing disabilities.
> 
> Is anyone in the EU (or further away) interested in coming too ?
> 
> Please let us all know if you are in for a gEDA "meet and greet".

I don't usually like to organise my diary more than about a week in
advance, but I might be tempted, especially if there are going to be a
number of gEDA interested people meeting up.


Its a shame I don't have many spare cycles for gEDA/PCB at the moment
though - but recently, when I have got a free evening / weekend, I have
been working on some cool core features in PCB.

I'm slowly trying to make PCB support native, non-approximated
arc-segments in its polygons. Surprisingly difficult that is. (VERY VERY
DIFFICULT?).

I've got most of the geometric stuff done, bar a few less common
code-paths. The real work is figuring out why it is so often broken (and
for simple geometry). I'll feel stupid if it turns out those corner
cases I deliberately skipped for now are the cause!


Oh...

If there is an EDA gathering at FOSSDEM, it might be worth getting
together with the KiCAD folks, and seeing if we can invite (and sponsor)
Alfons Wirtz (from freerouting.net), to talk about autorouter design.

Last we spoke, he was keen to talk (to anyone) about autorouter design,
after Zucken's lawyers bullied him into shutting down freerouting.net.
Alfons used to work for Zucken, on their autorouter).
 

Kind regards,

Peter


> Kind regards,
> 
> Bert Timmerman.

-- 
Peter Clifton <peter DOT clifton AT clifton-electronics DOT co DOT uk>

Clifton Electronics

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