The gEDA Project partners with Linux Fund to boost gEDA/PCB usability [LWN.net]

The gEDA Project has announced a partnership with the Linux Fund. "The gEDA Project is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Linux Fund in a fundraising effort targeted to expedite development of gEDA's flagship PCB layout program "PCB". Within this partnership, expert gEDA/PCB developer DJ Delorie has agreed to implement a set of enhancements designed to upgrade PCB's usability and utility for electronics designers, making it an attractive open source alternative to commercial PCB design tools. With this project, gEDA/PCB joins the VectorSection DWG interpreter project as part of Linux Fund's growing open engineering and hardware initiative."

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Posted Dec 18, 2008 11:51 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] (2 responses)

The link to the announcement actually just links back to this page :-)

I'm interested in the announcement because it's not clear what's happening. "Linux Fund" sounds like a body that funds things, but the blurb just talks about "helping" to find funding. Are they funding it or not?

I'd also be interested in DJ Delorie's involvement. He's one of the longest running GNU developers, which is always interesting, but according to his website he's happily employed, so the funding isn't for him.

Got a working link?

broken link

Posted Dec 18, 2008 18:09 UTC (Thu) by ris (subscriber, #5) [Link] (1 responses)

I found this link http://linuxfund.org/projects/pcb/
at the LinuxFund website http://linuxfund.org/

thanks

Posted Dec 20, 2008 19:09 UTC (Sat) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

Thanks for the link. It seems that Linux Fund is indeed raising funds, not funding.