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Subject: Re: [geda-user] A FOSS EDA dev room for FOSDEM 2015
From: Peter Clifton <pcjc2 AT cam DOT ac DOT uk>
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Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 23:03:48 +0100
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On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 14:18 +0200, Javier Serrano wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 4:24 AM, Peter Clifton <pcjc2 AT cam DOT ac DOT uk> wrote:
> [snip]
> > 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.
> [snip]
> 
> A semi-formal commitment from someone to present and discuss gEDA will
> make it more likely that my proposal for a dev room gets accepted.
> Come on people! :)

I'm happy to present something if I attend, but I can't always rule out
work commitments getting in the way. Sometimes stuff can crop up at
quite short notice.



> On the subject of routers and autorouters: FWIW my colleague Tomasz
> Wlostowski should be there. He is the author of KiCad's new
> interactive router. We met with Alfons not long ago and he gave Tom
> some good ideas.

Cool - I really like the videos of KiCad's interactive router, I and
would love to hear details of how it works from the author!

Glad to hear Alfons was of help, it sounds like he got quite a bad
treatment from Zucken. It makes me smile to think that their actions
ended up furthering the state of free and open competition to their
products.

His free-routing code-base might be considered tainted (or a source of
legal grief to those who distribute it), but the ideas and concepts are
definitely out there now.

Best wishes,


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

Clifton Electronics