Google Summer of Code and LibreCAD?
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Google Summer of Code and LibreCAD?
 
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Google summer of code will be funded this year. It's now time for
organizations to apply. Would any dev like a free student to work on LibreCAD (or any students on this list interested in working, getting paid good money, to develop librecad?) It's a mentorship program, so it will take some of the devs time to help the student - but at Debian the students we get are usually quite good and stuck with the project after GSoC done. http://code.google.com/soc/ We'd need to submit an abstract by February 27 - March 9, 2012. maybe something with implementing DWG support with Rallaz? Or any of the bigger feature requests? ~Scott |
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I think we should apply.
More ideas: 1, new GUI: https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/issues/217 2, enhance command line and script support Thanks, Dongxu On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:57 AM, showard314 [via LibreCAD] <[hidden email]> wrote: Google summer of code will be funded this year. It's now time for -- Dongxu Li, Ph.D. www.librecad.org |
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I agree with dli,
before we can make DWG support, SVG support, Scripting and more I think we should have a very good plugin support. Once we have a plugin's working properly we are less strict in terms of what we link against, and we can move more code out of LibreCAD into plugins. Ries On Feb 14, 2012, at 9:13 AM, dxli [via LibreCAD] wrote: I think we should apply. |
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On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:18 AM, R. van Twisk [via LibreCAD]
<[hidden email]> wrote: > I agree with dli, > > before we can make DWG support, SVG support, Scripting and more I think we > should have a very good plugin support. > Once we have a plugin's working properly we are less strict in terms of what > we link against, and we can move more > code out of LibreCAD into plugins. Here's some info we need to apply: http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2012/faqs#mentoring_apply We need to set up a wiki page with proposed projects (we can use the github one for now) to let students know what we're looking for. We also need a program admin and back up admin. Each student will get $5000 US and LibreCAD will get $500 per student, from google. There is also a conference in CA at Google's headquarters that mentoring organizations get to go to. Here's KDE's ideas page: http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas of course it's massive, since KDE is massive - but each project follows a similar format. I'd hate to dump more responsibility on Ries and Dongxu - but would you two be interested in being the admins? I can help with that too (or even be an admin for administrative purposes) but you two are much closer to the code. You would also probably be the mentors, along with Rallaz if he's interested - so if it's too much work I can offload some of the paperwork stuff. ~Scott |
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Another idea:
Implementaton of model-paperspace. This is a powerful and useful tool for print views at the Same Different scales of drawing in a single plane. or have a drawing with different installations (plumbing, electricity, data) and print a map with individually installations. Rallaz |
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Then, the first step is to set up the wiki page for ideas, either on librecad.org or on github.com
I feel Ries should take care of the web stuff. The rest of us should help filling in contents. Scott can help us on preparing of application documents. We only got 4 possible mentors(irc ids): ries, rallaz, claudeQC, dli. Dongxu On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Rallaz [via LibreCAD] <[hidden email]> wrote: Another idea: -- Dongxu Li, Ph.D. www.librecad.org |
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There are a lot of good things still missing in LibreCAD so it can be a complete replacement to ACAD(or other),
Please, Im only talking 2D here, FreeCAD is already doing a great job in 3D. We are missing treat the project more serious: Setting milestones! -Model-paperview -perpendicular snap -tangent snap -smartsnap. -way of user to set hotkeys to commands eg: o=offset -automatic focus on command window by hitting any key from a to z. -shift+rightclick to bring on screen snap option. -More options of markers on dimension lines, such as architectural ticks. -Line types for Eletrical, architect.... After that: A shit lot of ton python scripts directed to individual areas: Eletrical, architecture, so on.... 2012/2/14 dxli [via LibreCAD] <[hidden email]> Then, the first step is to set up the wiki page for ideas, either on librecad.org or on github.com -- Fernando da Motta Hildebrand |
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On 16 February 2012 07:48, fernandohildebrand [via LibreCAD]
<[hidden email]> wrote: > There are a lot of good things still missing in LibreCAD so it can be a > complete replacement to ACAD(or other), > Please, Im only talking 2D here, FreeCAD is already doing a great job in 3D. > > We are missing treat the project more serious: Setting milestones! > > -Model-paperview > -perpendicular snap > -tangent snap > -smartsnap. > -way of user to set hotkeys to commands eg: o=offset > -automatic focus on command window by hitting any key from a to z. > -shift+rightclick to bring on screen snap option. > -More options of markers on dimension lines, such as architectural ticks. > -Line types for Eletrical, architect.... > > After that: A shit lot of ton python scripts directed to individual areas: > Eletrical, architecture, so on.... are done with it i think 60% project will be over. -- http://davinder.in Dont hurt the web, use open standards |
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Guys as you probably know I`m not a developer (not yet anyway -still learning the basics).
So from a users point of view, I think just keep it simple for now -yes there are still things to complete as mentioned but just concentrate on getting Version 2 out -and most of all guys take our time to get it right. You are not under pressure from anyone, the only pressure will come from yourselves! I thank Ries for even getting the whole thing started and of course the original developers. So to my "outside" users view I think that Ries and you original developers should yes of course set "mile stones" but make the whole thing manageable and have fun doing it not under pressure. I personally do not want an Autocad clone -I like the way and feel of LibreCAD just as it is. However I agree with all the above comments that of course some of the features of other CAD programs would be great to see...in time. The other thing is I`ve used and Know AutoCAD, Microstation etc.. etc.. and for me Librecad is just the simple 2D CAD program I want to see. For simple Laser cutting plans or DIY work/hobby work LibreCAD is great.. My question is .. Are people expecting a 2d AutoCAD alternative to use for "commercial" purposes for free? |
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On 16/02/2012 5:34, Clive [via LibreCAD] wrote: > > Guys as you probably know I`m not a developer (not yet anyway -still > learning the basics). > > So from a users point of view, I think just keep it simple for now -yes > there are still things to complete as mentioned but just concentrate on > getting Version 2 out -and most of all guys take our time to get it > right. You are not under pressure from anyone, the only pressure will > come from yourselves! > > I thank Ries for even getting the whole thing started and of course the > original developers. So to my "outside" users view I think that Ries and > you original developers should yes of course set "mile stones" but make > the whole thing manageable and have fun doing it not under pressure. > > I personally do not want an Autocad clone -I like the way and feel of > LibreCAD just as it is. However I agree with all the above comments that > of course some of the features of other CAD programs would be great to > see...in time. > > The other thing is I`ve used and Know AutoCAD, Microstation etc.. etc.. > and for me Librecad is just the simple 2D CAD program I want to see. For > simple Laser cutting plans or DIY work/hobby work LibreCAD is great.. > - I totally agree with you. > > My question is .. Are people expecting a 2d AutoCAD alternative to use > for "commercial" purposes for free? > - Personally, I don't expect LibreCAD to become an AutoCAD alternative, neither support DWG format (DXF is sufficient), neither support a scripting language, neither being a "cutting edge" piece of software; but just being a "simple" 2-D CAD software that can run on most popular platform. Claude |
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