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<h3>Press Release -- December 15th, 2008</h3>
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<h2>The gEDA Project partners with Linux Fund to boost gEDA/PCB usability</h2>
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<a href="http://www.linuxfund.org/projects/pcb">
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The gEDA Project is pleased to announce that it has partnered with
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Linux Fund in a fundraising effort targeted to
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expedite development of gEDA's flagship PCB layout program
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<a href="http://pcb.gpleda.org/">"PCB"</a>.
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Within this partnership, expert gEDA/PCB developer DJ Delorie
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has agreed to implement a set of enhancements designed to upgrade
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PCB's usability and utility for electronics designers, making it an
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attractive open source alternative to commercial PCB design tools.
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With this project,
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gEDA/PCB joins the VectorSection DWG interpreter project as part
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of Linux Fund's growing open engineering and hardware initiative.
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PCB is a twenty year old application. Originally written in 1990 for
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the Atari ST, the program was ported to Unix in 1994. Over the years,
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it has been maintained and extended by a series of developers who have
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added improvements and new features, including the ability to export
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Gerber RS-274x files, an autorouter, and a GTK port.
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Mr Delorie is currently one of the
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chief developers involved with PCB, having become involved with the
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project in 2002.
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<a href="http://www.delorie.com/">DJ Delorie</a>
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is well known within the open source community as the
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author of djgpp, a popular port of the gcc compiler to DOS. He is also
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a long time user of PCB, having used the program to design a
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net-enabled alarm clock which won second place in Circuit Cellar
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Magazine's "Microchip embedded control" design contest in 2007. His
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commitment to work on PCB usability enhancements in conjunction with
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funding from the Linux Fund represents a major step forward for the
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gEDA Project, as well as a welcome boost to the open-hardware
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movement.
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<h4>gEDA/PCB upgrade work description:</h4>
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<li>Implement forward annotation using action scripts</li>
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<li>GUI modernization</li>
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<li>Enhance ability to create and edit arbitrary layer types</li>
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<li>Develop a new Footprint Editor</li>
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<li>Update Design Rule Checking</li>
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<h4>About the gEDA Project</h4>
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The gEDA Project is a community of open-source developers working on
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creating tools for electronic design released under the GNU Public
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License. The project currently offers a mature suite of free software
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applications for electronics design, including schematic capture,
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attribute management, bill of materials (BOM) generation, netlisting
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into over 20 netlist formats, analog and digital simulation, and
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printed circuit board (PCB) layout.
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Besides the core design tools, the gEDA Project has gathered a
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community of other programmers who work on their own tools while
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sharing the gEDA e-mail lists, administration, and community
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support. This extended set of electronics design applications has
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become known as the "gEDA Suite".
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Visit <a href="http://www.gpleda.org">www.gpleda.org</a>
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for more information about the gEDA Project.
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<h4>About Linux Fund</h4>
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Linux Fund is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides
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financial and supervisory support to the open source software
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community. Linux Fund raises funds with its line of rewards credit
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cards and direct donations, and has given over half a million dollars
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to open source projects since its founding in 1999.
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Visit <a href="http://www.linuxfund.org/">www.linuxfund.org</a>
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for more information about Linux Fund and to help support the
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gEDA/PCB Project.
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Visit <a href="http://linuxfund.org/projects/pcb/"> the PCB fund project page</a> to make a donation.
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