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The FreeCAD Project Asso­ci­a­tion issued two more grants.

Mario Pas­saglia is now work­ing on bug­fix­ing and elec­tro­mag­net­ic sys­tem sim­u­la­tions using Cal­culiX in the FEM work­bench. Expect­ed new fea­tures will pro­vide the res­o­lu­tion of:

1. Elec­tro­sta­t­ics prob­lems through an anal­o­gy with the heat equa­tion to derive the elec­tro­sta­t­ic poten­tial and field, employ­ing Neu­mann and Dirich­let bound­ary conditions.
2. Mag­ne­to­sta­t­ics problems.
3. Elec­tro­mag­net­ic prob­lems involv­ing the gen­er­a­tion of elec­tro­mag­net­ic fields due to time-depen­dent cur­rents, in con­junc­tion with the analy­sis of heat trans­fer result­ing from induced cur­rents in conductors.

Mar­i­o’s project is expect­ed to last 7 months. He has been award­ed a grant of $4,000.

Max Wil­fin­ger is work­ing on bug triage: ver­i­fy­ing and pri­or­i­tiz­ing bug reports, assign­ing con­trib­u­tors to tasks etc. This is a dif­fer­ent kind of arrange­ment. His con­tract is for 1 year, with month­ly pay­outs of $500.