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Urban from LibrePCB, who has been developing a free/libre EDA suite (for PCB design) mostly by himself for over 4 years now: http://librepcb.org/ http://librepc

by dbrgn 8y ago

Urban from LibrePCB, who has been developing a free/libre EDA suite (for PCB design) mostly by himself for over 4 years now: http://librepcb.org/ http://librepcb.org/ The first release will hopefully be out this year. If you think a FOSS KiCAD "competitor" with a solid and well thought-out library design and good usability should be supported, then check out his Patreon page (or his BTC address). Or – of course – contribute code. Here you can find a LibrePCB introduction video from this year's FOSDEM: https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/cad_librepcb/ https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/cad_librepcb/ (Edit: Punctuation)

cbHXBY1D 8y ago
Interesting! I'm a KiCAD user but have never heard of this. Why doesn't Urban just contribute to KiCAD instead of maintaining a separate open source project? Apologies if he mentions it in the video -- I'm at work.
- phkahler 8y ago
  >> Why doesn't Urban just contribute to KiCAD instead of maintaining a separate open source project? Not every open source project is built the way a person thinks it should be. The only way to know if an alternate viewpoint is better is to build it and find out. Other times a person just wants to build it for themselves for their own reasons. Either way, variety can be a good thing. One day an alternative may just replace your favorite piece of software and then you might ask why the creator started from so far behind all those years ago... There are probably as many reasons as there are developers.
  - cbHXBY1D 8y ago
    Do you know anything about this project or is this just a generic diatribe? I was hoping to hear about his opinions of the shortcomings of KiCAD and where LibrePCB improves on them. It would certainly help someone like me decide whether to fund him on Patreon or not, seeing as I've donated to CERN for KiCAD development. Edit: I've found his reasons in his slides - https://www.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/cad_librepcb/attachments/slides/2267/export/events/attachments/cad_librepcb/slides/2267/librepcb_slides.pdf https://www.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/cad_librepcb/atta...

by dbrgn 8y ago

cbHXBY1D 8y ago

Interesting! I'm a KiCAD user but have never heard of this. Why doesn't Urban just contribute to KiCAD instead of maintaining a separate open source project? Apologies if he mentions it in the video -- I'm at work.

phkahler 8y ago
>> Why doesn't Urban just contribute to KiCAD instead of maintaining a separate open source project? Not every open source project is built the way a person thinks it should be. The only way to know if an alternate viewpoint is better is to build it and find out. Other times a person just wants to build it for themselves for their own reasons. Either way, variety can be a good thing. One day an alternative may just replace your favorite piece of software and then you might ask why the creator started from so far behind all those years ago... There are probably as many reasons as there are developers.
- cbHXBY1D 8y ago
  Do you know anything about this project or is this just a generic diatribe? I was hoping to hear about his opinions of the shortcomings of KiCAD and where LibrePCB improves on them. It would certainly help someone like me decide whether to fund him on Patreon or not, seeing as I've donated to CERN for KiCAD development. Edit: I've found his reasons in his slides - https://www.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/cad_librepcb/attachments/slides/2267/export/events/attachments/cad_librepcb/slides/2267/librepcb_slides.pdf https://www.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/cad_librepcb/atta...